Looking for a help-ily ever after


HAS my luck finally run out? I am hoping not yet, now that my long- time, stable house help arrangement is under threat.

As some of you may already know, I have an Indonesian domestic helper who has worked for me for 13 years. I wrote about how I went through hoops to let her go on a home visit earlier this year (“The ‘maid’ joke was on me”, July 27; online at bit.ly/star_maid).

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