Today I’m home with a sick little boy. You know how it is when you have a sick child: You are fully present and it’s about all the snuggles and hugs, all the warm milk with honey, all the storybooks and movies with popcorn. Still, while buddy is napping, I can’t help it but thinking: […]
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At SeaBerry Studios I teach how to make skincare products with kind ingredients. I really love how empowered people feel after their first workshop. It’s more than just making skincare. It’s about learning what can and what shouldn’t go into the skin. It’s about deciphering the nebulous cosmetic label world. Students go home after a workshop and […]
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Just like that it’s undoubtedly Fall! As usual, I’m not sure how this happened. After Funk sings, “Sometimes summer gets away way too fast!” and in the case of Newfoundland, I believe that we could easily replace sometimes with all the time. When I used to live in Portugal the summers were so long and hot that I was craving […]
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It all started pretty innocently with a friend bringing a store bought carton of sauerkraut to my house and raving about the benefits of that strongly smelly cabbage concoction. I had never heard about sauerkraut before and after she left I went into research mode (one of my favourite modes after Puttering mode). I quickly became fascinated […]
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Let me tell you a secret: At home, we were never able to make a proper pancake until very recently. I do have a great recipe for a delicious vegan pancake that my family loves but the traditional pancakes have always been a mystery to me. They were never fluffy, or they tasted too much […]
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Easter Bunny doesn’t come to Portugal. He doesn’t hide chocolate eggs for children to find. In Portugal for Easter, we eat almonds (candied, chocolate covered, hand-painted in sugar and plain almonds), we spend the day with family and some of us go to Mass. The Portuguese in me is really uncomfortable with all the fictional […]
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