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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.
Magical Portugal – a special video reading by the author
Magical Portugal, the second book in the Bunny Chronicles, comes with a special new feature – a video for you to read along with!...
Nicole Crabtree with photos and video by
Mar 7, 20201 min read
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
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
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
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
Magical Turkey – Bunny returns to her roots & Picci has her first vacation
Compliments of Miss Blu, our family at KOK Kamp on the first day. On our last night at the KOK camp the young woman I had nicknamed Miss...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Begum Erenler Soylu
Jul 26, 20199 min read
On the road again.....back in July
The completely packed case Packing a suitcase. One of my greatest pleasures. Just like going to the grocery store represents cooking and...
Nicole Crabtree
May 28, 20192 min read
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
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
Get your copy of the first Bunny Chronicles - how Bunny was born
Back cover of the first edition of the Bunny Chronicles, how Bunny was born. For Nicole Crabtree, this is a dream come true. As an auntie...
Nicole Crabtree with illustrations by Alice Mae
Feb 14, 20192 min read
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
Istanbul: the magical city where Bunny was born
Istanbul is my favorite city in the world and given my travel history this is saying something. The magic of the Bosphorus alone is like...
Nicole Crabtree with guest blogger Megan Levine
Jan 25, 201914 min read
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
Mom & Nana's Anisette Cookies
There are certain tastes and smells that make a holiday come alive, and for me, my mother's anisette cookies are Christmas. When I was in...
Nicole Crabtree with guest Linda Androvich
Dec 8, 20183 min read
Thanksgiving - gratitude is an everyday holiday
Two years we shared super happy Thanksgivings with Mary & Mehdi Jazayeri, in the full spirit of communal preparations and sharing of...
Nicole Crabtree
Nov 18, 20187 min read
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
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
India: Love is the only way, a meditative journey
Bunny takes a rare photo op at the peak of a particularly spectacular summit, where violet and green rock dazzles the eye. She shared the...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Nicolas Ferrier
Sep 8, 201815 min read
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 20, 20183 min read
Mom's European adventure tracing her Spanish roots plus with Bunny, Bearli, & Co.
Bunny & Bearli catch some sun at the Alhambra. In the 22 years I have lived outside of America my mom has come to visit me three times,...
Nicole Crabtree with photos by Kenan Soylu
May 29, 201812 min read
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