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Welcome to FoodMood blog space. Reflections on my travels, musings, favorite recipes, and the Bunny Chronicles. Storytelling with joy, sass, self-reflection, and hope.
Celebrations, reflections, and returns – Back in 2020
In January Claudio and I will celebrate 10 years of marriage. An impossible feat to have imagined in either of our lives. We both swore...
Nicole Crabtree with drawing by Alice Mae
Dec 10, 20193 min read
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Bunny launches her own line of cards in time for Christmas - Get yours now!
We are happy introduce a line of Bunny Chronicle postcards. Now you can send Bunny & Bearli images to the world at large, just click here...
Nicole Crabtree with images by Alice Mae
Dec 1, 20193 min read
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Things & Thanksgiving
Center, Bearli with Poppy observing the first Harley parade in Lugano; top left Bearli poses with Pici; next Bearli poses for his...
Nicole Crabtree
Nov 27, 20194 min read
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Lazy days of summer evolve to the intense days of autumn
Lago di Santa Croce, searching for a cool breeze. August in the mountains of Italy. Entire days lay before me totally unscheduled. A...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Patrizia Pancino
Sep 8, 20192 min read
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Bunny as a radio star: North South West East this summer on Swiss RETE-UNO
Left Bunny in the studio with Elena on our first show, in South America; right Bunny, Bearli, and I broadcasting remotely from Malpensa...
Nicole Crabtree
Jul 19, 20191 min read
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Living in Paradise, Lugano Switzerland
Our entire furry family – from left Prickles, Bearli, Nut guy, Bunny, Pici, Biancha, June bug, and Bianchino - poses for Kenan from our...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Kenan Soylu
Apr 13, 20192 min read
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Effective Communication - Rules to live by
Is it possible that as a professional trainer of effective communication that I still find myself often incapable of anything close to...
Nicole Crabtree
Mar 22, 20193 min read
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My Soul has a Hat - Welcoming the Chinese New Year, 2019 Year of the Pig
A collage of photos roasting Keith for 2019, year of the pig; top left Keith and I having a party; next Keith and Claudio meet over the...
Nicole Crabtree
Feb 5, 20193 min read
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Istanbul images
Golden sunshine illuminates the Bosphorus. Kenan Soylu, software engineer and photographer dazzles us with his eyes on Istanbul. Lucky...
Kenan Soylu
Jan 21, 20191 min read
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09.01.19 My choice to stay
Our hands joined on our wedding day, Bunny, Bearli (with one eye, shy like his Poppy), Bianca, and Biancina witness our union. Nine years...
Nicole Crabtree
Jan 9, 20193 min read
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Dizee's Irish coffee rings in the season
This photo is a representation of the holiday season for me. I had my first Irish coffee in Shreveport, Louisiana in December 1994 when I...
Nicole Crabtree
Dec 21, 20183 min read
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La settimana dei morti, play dead and nurture your light
Pici gazes at our Halloween cookies wondering if they will be added to our family of poppets, they could definitely be seasonal avatars...
Nicole Crabtree
Oct 31, 20181 min read
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Birthdays in France: a course in miracles in three parts Paris, Gaujac, and the Basque country
Esra, Bunny, & I wandering the streets of Paris come upon beautiful birds in a fountain square and took this photo for Christine our bird...
Nicole Crabtree with contributing photographers
Oct 14, 20186 min read
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Love at Ferragosto in the Dolomites
Lago di Croce as seen from our garden in the haven of the Dolomites Torres d’alpago. Village of 122 persons at the foot of the...
Nicole Crabtree
Aug 15, 20183 min read
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August 1st Happy Swiss Independence day!
Bearli fiercely proud of his Swiss Poppy holds his flag on August 1st bottom center; bottom right courtesy of Gerry Hofstetter; top and...
Nicole Crabtree with contribution by Elisabeth
Jul 31, 20182 min read
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Happy 4th of July from India
Photo courtesy of google. During this period I am traveling in India and will be back on line in August. This post is to wish all,...
Nicole Crabtree
Jul 4, 20181 min read
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Grace: a poem provokes a state of being
Sandro Botticelli's Three Graces in Primavera courtesy of The History Collection / Alamy Stock Photo GRACE She said the maple tree...
Nicole Crabtree with guest poet Jill Haber
Jun 21, 20183 min read
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FOOD: How I (re)found my voice
Photo features the alchemist area of my kitchen as photographed by me, while the image in the right, the “Sun Catcher” by Ioyan Mani...
Nicole Crabtree
May 24, 20185 min read
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Why Won't He Apologize? (re) Connecting to feminine energy
This collage is a compilation of photos of us and me from the world over. Of particular note featured middle us somewhere between...
Nicole Crabtree
Apr 13, 20184 min read
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Nowruz: Welcome Spring
WELCOME SPRING 2018! For many of us March is only vaguely related to the concept of a new year, depending upon where one lives, it may as...
Nicole Crabtree
Mar 21, 20181 min read
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