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It’s been a week now since we adopted Lupita. She’s super cute, full of energy and has been waking us […]
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Recipe: Banana Bars with Rum Icing
Jorge has been doing all of the cooking for the past three week while I recovered from eye surgery. I’m
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Little Weekend Links 19
Last weekend was the first I was allowed out of the house after my eye surgery. I filled it with
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Little Observationist Turns One
It’s hard to believe a full year has gone by already, but it was April 1 when I set out
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Instagrammable Moments: March 2014
It’s been a strange month for me. The first week I was in North Tonawanda, New York, for a whirlwind
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Little Weekend Links 18
It’s been a long week. Well, a long few weeks during which I wasn’t able to leave the house since
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Going home always feels quite surreal. It goes by in a whirlwind every time, except for short moments on silent
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Instagrammable Moments: February 2014
When February kicked off, it brought the last few days of my mom’s short visit to London. Most of February
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One of my most favourite ways to pass a weekend is by exploring a new city. Though Boston isn’t entirely
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A candlelit dinner on a long wooden table in a lovely Holland Park dining room with two other couples and
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Recipe: Fried “Big Ass” Ants (Hormigas Culonas) from Colombia
A smoky, woodsy scent fills the air in Mogotes, Colombia, during the rainy season – around late March or early
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Little Weekend Links 14
Last weekend, Jorge and I celebrated our two-year anniversary at the same place we had our second date: Le Quecumbar
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On Thoughtfulness
A card arrived Monday night with a colourful child’s drawing on the front. It said “Philippines” in the black marker
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10 of the Best Books by Bloggers
I could spend a whole evening catching up with my favourite bloggers, a cup of tea in hand. There are
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Little Weekend Links 13
I joined Open Diary in 2002. Over the last 12 years, I filled it with 1,765 entries and became part
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Memories of North Tonawanda Snow
It’s February and I walked by a blooming camelia bush yesterday, the soft pink petals weighted down with drops of
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Instagramable Moments: January 2014
January crawled a bit in the beginning with its grey and rainy days, Londoners walking the wet pavements with heads
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With just three short days at work and a visit from my mom who arrived from New York on Wednesday,
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Recipe: Beetroot Chocolate Brownies
It was last summer that I really started enjoying beetroot for the first time when I discovered the beetroot and