There's a heavy silence that settles into a Lisbon home at 9 p.m. on a summer Tuesday. It's not the silence of neighbors who've gone on vacation — it's the silence of staring at a pile of shirts that need ironing, with the temperature hovering around 32°C outside and humidity that sticks your clothes to your body just thinking about the hot iron. Do you know this silence? We do too. And that's why we're here.
This isn't an article about how to iron faster. That would be an insult to... (total 11602 chars)