Most of us book a cleaning the way we book a dentist appointment: right after something starts hurting. The sofa smells faintly of last month’s biryani, the in-laws land on Thursday, or the landlord has just emailed about the move-out inspection. Suddenly you’re messaging three companies at once and taking whatever slot happens to be […]

Somebody texts “we’re 20 minutes away” and something ancient wakes up inside you. You become fast. You become decisive. Objects that have sat undisturbed on the dining table since March are suddenly relocated with military efficiency. You wipe a surface you have walked past four hundred times without seeing. And then you stand in your […]