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Closing Down eLuckypacket
Short and sweet? I feel it’s time to call it quits here at eLuckypacket. Yes, over the coming months, I will be closing this blog down and focusing more on my family blog.
I’m not usually one to give up on something quickly — eLuckypacket has only been going just under a year, after all. But I also know when a venture is not thriving, and recognize when I need to give it up.
I started eLuckypacket with the simple thought that Southern-African women spread across the globe might want to keep in touch. That those living far away from family might want to participate in a virtual community and share something fun.
But along the way, I learned a couple things:
Planning, designing and launching a blog is a lot of geeky FUN. Keeping it running and posting multiple times a week? Not so much. Correction. It is fun … I just don’t have the time for that much fun focused all in one place. I need to spread my fun around — ha ha!
Those of you who live overseas know that there are TONS of South-African expats in just about every major city of the world. I assumed most expats were fairly web savvy and that a good percentage of them would like a fun read every couple of days.
And while I’m going on about fun … from reading quite a few blogs over the years, I should have known that the really fun, juicy community-style blogs are those written by fun, juicy girls. The kind that are outrageous and engaging and larger-than-life. I am not that kind of girl. For the most part, I am very earnest and kind but fairly introvert. Not the kind that spills it all out on the blog. So perhaps I am not the best candidate to edit a community blog.
But getting back to all of you South-Africans out there — I’ve learned that not all of you are glued to the Internet. You’re busy carting kids to school and running your own businesses and perhaps checking email or hopping onto Facebook when you get a spare moment. Definitely not reading blogs daily though — not the majority of you anyway.
So yes, I misjudged how Internet-active South-African women might be. And much as I love the small band of dedicated eLuckypacket readers (I can name you on the fingers of my two hands), I cannot see myself maintaining this blog for years and years in the hope that more readers will join us.
My main reason for closing down eLuckypacket, though, is something I could not have foreseen. Over the past year, I have slowly been taking small steps toward healthier, happier living. Committing to a varied exercise plan. Finally losing the post-baby um now-three-year-old pounds (only 4 lbs to go!). Slowly peeling away things that are not serving me or my family, so that I can LIVE a bit more and run around like a crazy-chick a bit less.
And I find that, internally, I’ve slowed down a lot. I’d rather lie on the carpet with Tau and play trains than cram in a missed blog post. I’ve started reading again — real novels and autobiographies instead of snippets of magazines in doctors’ offices or in the bath tub. And I hope to start writing and crafting a bit again.
So. I plan to leave eLuckypacket up until the domain expires some time August 2009. But I will not be adding new posts.
You’ll still hear from me because I’ll still be reading and commenting on South-African blogs. And if you’d like to stay in touch, you can email me at editor@eluckypacket.com or continue to visit our family blog at nobaddays.
I started this blog with a Hello World post … and now I’m wondering how one ends a blog. With a simple bye-bye blogging world?
No — I hope to stay in touch!
“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling”
Blaise Pascal
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Posted: December 1st, 2008 | 12 Comments ... Your thoughts?
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Doing My Bit to Boost the Economy (Grin)
Aren’t we all feeling the tightness of the economic situation in some way?
The mind boggling stats and financial reports on the news seem a bit abstract. What I know is what I see. Stores closing down everywhere I look.
The last time I went shopping in the mall nearest our home, there were two major chains having going-out-of-business sales, and a shoe store that was already boarded up.
And when I dropped into another mall the week before, I noticed yet another shoe chain closing its doors. All of their shoes were 70 percent off and I scored three pairs for under $30.
One of which was the cute and comfy starry canvas flats shown above. Also a pair of designer winter mules and a set of strappy black sandals. (No — not THE black sandals.)
Great bargain but I felt awful for the two cashiers in the half-empty shop who were clearly going to be out of work soon.
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Posted: November 14th, 2008 | No comments yet ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Living abroad, Fashion & beauty
Living the Dream
“I have a dream that my … children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream
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Posted: November 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Politics & society
Holding Our Breath …
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Posted: November 4th, 2008 | No comments yet ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Politics & society, From the editor, Living abroad, From around the world
Share Your Superpowers
Andrea over at Superhero Journal recently admitted to her chief superpower: She is able to meet and befriend fabulous musicians. Which means her life is filled with great music. She asked her readers what they considered as their own superpowers.
Which got me thinking about how we underestimate our own special abilities. Those parts of our characters or skill sets that make us astounding good at something! Anything!
For example:
- I am very good at making something out of nothing! Give me a creative challenge and I will rise to it. A short story from watching a couple in the grocery line. Lycra slipcovers for my dining chairs … freehand, without a pattern. A one-of-a-kind world map for Tau’s bedroom wall, so that he knows where the family live in South Africa and Canada and New Zealand.
- Also, I seldom LOSE it with my kid. Instead, I get quiet inside and very, very resolute. Some would say stubborn but I like to think of it as being composed.
- Little known fact. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. Big deal. I can also purse and lift my lips up to cover (COVER) my nostrils entirely. Comes in very handy when swimming underwater!
How about you? What are your superhero-girly-magnifique-alicious powers?!
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Posted: October 24th, 2008 | 3 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Odds & Ends, Body, mind & spirit
Finding Those Pretty Sandals
A couple years ago, Dave and I took a ballroom dance class to learn the basics. Of course, we didn’t practice enough and the class moved quickly through too many dances, so we forgot it all.
In fact, the only thing that lasted was the lovely pair of strappy Fioni sandals I bought to take the lessons.
Let me tell you, finding black sandals that are comfortable enough to learn to rhumba in is quite the feat.
The straps on these babies were soft black elastic and the heel just high and wide enough so that I didn’t wobble. They look great with skirts and jeans and work slacks, and I wore them for years.
When I realized just how great they were I went back to the store to buy a backup pair. They were all gone.
And then the black finish rubbed off around the toes, despite my efforts to touch them up with a black marker. And the leather lining the footbeds started to lift and flap against my heels with every step. And still I wore them.
One day I spent a good 45 minutes on the Internet searching for every combination of “Fioni” and “black” and “strappy” and “sandal” I could think of. The picture you see above was probably the closest I could find. But not the same shoe.
I don’t shop much for shoes (compared to other women, Dave, compared to other women) and I have picky, picky, picky taste, so I was feeling a bit sorry for myself.
Until I visited one of my regular blog reads — and for the life of me, I can’t remember who it was — but in the context of her post, she included a picture similar to this:
And suddenly my quest for the perfect strappy sandal was not only vain but insignificant.
No one should have to wear plastic bottles for shoes.
And no one should have to wear black rubbish bags as clothing. Or eat out of a garbage can.
The next time you are approached to donate to an organization providing clothing, shoes or food for people living in poverty, I hope you will remember my frivolity, remember your own relative comfort, and GIVE.
Today is Blog Action Day 2008, with a focus on poverty. Check out their list of 80 Things You Can Do to Fight Poverty Right Now.
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Posted: October 15th, 2008 | 4 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Politics & society, Fashion & beauty, Giving & receiving
How to Avoid Spinach in Your Teeth and a Double Chin
I’m busy getting ready for a huge third birthday bash — the guest list got a bit out of hand. Rookie mother!
So I thought I’d send you over to Photojojo, where they have a great list up … Ten Ways to Look Fabulous in Pictures!
Here’s the short list but check out the full article for details.
- Dress nicely
- Check the mirror
- Don’t shine
- Stand up straight
- Twist it up
- Stretch your neck
- Flee the flash
- Choose your light
- Watch where you stand
- Meditate for a moment
Yeah right, I always have time to meditate before getting my photo taken!
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Posted: October 9th, 2008 | No comments yet ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Odds & Ends, Technology & gadgets
Mmmmn! Cupcakes!
With Tau’s birthday coming up this week, we’re deep into party planning mode.
Third birthday and a boy? Trains of course!
But instead of getting myself in over my head this time, making a full cake-ey version of Thomas, Salty and all the Troublesome Trucks, I’m taking the easy route. Making a couple batches of cupcakes, icing-sugar train tracks on them, joining them together in a circle and plonking an el-cheapo toy train candle holder on the cupcake track.
And I’m making the cupcakes from a box. But then that goes without saying!
I must say, though, that it has been fun looking around for ideas — I had no idea cupcakes were such a big deal these days!
There are a number of cupcake blogs: Take a look at Cupcakes Take the Cake , All Things Cupcake and 52 Cupcakes, to mention a few.
And then there’s a fabulous new cupcake book, which I saw on our recent trip to San Francisco. Hello Cupcake by Alan Richardson and Karen Tack has THE most incredible cupcakes in it. If you see it while browsing bookshops, it’s well worth flipping through or buying. (Here are just a few of the cakes in the book.)
Finally, for those of you who insist that bigger is better, take a look at the Giant Cupcake Pan by Wilton. I mean how many calories can there be in one cupcake?!
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Posted: October 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments ... Your thoughts?
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For Those Who Can’t Vote - Pass it On!
Earlier this week Nutmeg put herself out there, reminding her American readers that their one vote is not always enough.
Those of us who do not yet have the right to vote are in an even more frustrating predicament. We pay taxes, we contribute to the economy, we volunteer to better our neighbourhoods and we raise our children as Americans. But for one reason or another, we cannot vote.
In my case, I am a permanent resident but am still at least five years (!) away from being able to take citizenship. I am not allowed to vote Obama-Biden in this election … or the one to follow in 2012.
What to do?
See the handy dandy banner above? And the skinny one in the right sidebar? I made them! And if you have a website and are in the same situation, I ask you to copy and post them on your site.
Know someone living in the US who can’t vote like me? Send this post to them (click Email to a Friend below).
If they are McCain-Palin fans, I will even (much as it makes my toe nails curl) make them a banner that reflects their preference. Because I’m nice that way and I believe we should all have the right to vote if we pay taxes and are committed to making a life in a society.
Live in the US but don’t have a website? I have posted an 8 x 10 version of the banner here, where you can download, print it and stick it up somewhere where others will see it.
Pass it on, ladies! We South Africans know firsthand how precious the right to vote is!
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Posted: September 26th, 2008 | 8 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Politics & society, Living abroad, Giving & receiving
These Things are Fun and Fun is Good
Well, hello there! We’re back from Northern California.
Last night I read One Fish Two Fish to Tau and smiled when I reached this page.
It reminded me of the great time we had on holiday over the past ten days — with very little agenda, just moving from place to place, enjoying opportunities as they arose.
Years ago, Dave and I spent a few days on our own in San Francisco. We slept in, walked the city flat, browsed bookstores and specialty stores at our leisure, had slow breakfasts in small coffee shops, reading the local paper.
With a two-year-old? Different story. We visited toy stores that had Thomas play tables, we threw pebbles in a stream for 45 minutes, we visited every fire station we found, and we went down the curly slide again and again … and again.
Dave and I joked that we might as well have stayed home because all the kid was interested in was fire engines, railway boom gates and counting the American flags he saw. All of which we can see and do in the suburb where we live.
But yes, kids really do slow you down. So that you relax and take pleasure in the little, ordinary things. Like making food and poop for a Playdoh elephant, setting a basket of baby heirloom tomatoes on a windowsill, and watching the chef in an authentic Italian eatery in San Fran slowly stir a “super-BIG” pot of Bolognese.
Yes we did get to taste lots of scrumptious wine, sleep in (ok, some days), and make lovely dinners from fresh, local produce. All the things we love to do.
Our pictures are here and they should give you a good sense of the slow pace and simple pleasures we enjoyed. Yes, these things were fun and fun is good!
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Posted: September 24th, 2008 | 4 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: From the editor, Living abroad, Kids & family, Travel & leisure, Food & entertaining
Squeezing the Last Little Bit Out of Summer!
Looking forward to hanging out with my boys
We’re off again! This time we’re flying up to San Francisco, renting a car and driving up to Mendocino County.
That’s Northern California wine country. I joked with a workmate yesterday that we never go anywhere that doesn’t grow wine.
For the next 10 or so days, we’ll be soaking up the last of the summer sun on the beach, stopping in at a few wineries, dipping our toes in the hot springs and generally meandering South through all the charming communities on the map.
I’ll be taking a break from blogging so that I can unplug completely. I’ll be sleeping in, trying out the local yoga classes, reading something fun and fictional (any sugggestions?) and taking long walks with my guys. Oh, and did I mention I’ll be drinking wine? Yes, I use my extra Weight Watchers points for wine!
In the mean time, I thought I’d point you over to our family blog and Flickr stream. Up ’til now, I’ve kept the two blogs separate but oh, what the heck! For those of you interested, you can follow us there. If I have time, I might upload photos to Flickr as we travel.
See you all soon.
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Posted: September 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: From the editor, Living abroad, Travel & leisure
NIA: Finding Your Way Back to the Body
Photos by permission, Doug Ellis Photography,
taken at Sol NIA, Roaring Fork, CO
“The body is a sacred garment.”
~ Martha Graham
As I mentioned, I came to NIA looking for a fun workout that would loosen some of the tension that builds in my neck and shoulders sitting at a computer all day.
NIA does that and more. As promised in the last post, here are five aspects of NIA dance that bring me pleasure — ways I have found to foster physical, mental and emotional awareness and play.
1. Awareness of the Body
Most of us come from cultures that, at best, place a lower emphasis on the body than on the mind or spirit. At worst, our history and many of our churches tell us that the body and anything that it feels is likely to be bad. And so we barely take note of our bodies and what’s going on inside them until we get sick.
Within a NIA class or two I realized that I was living most of life outside of my body. My focus was all over the place — making mental shopping lists, planning what we would eat for supper, stressing over a software issue at work, tuning in to the skinner at the coffee machine just around the office corner. My mind felt fragmented, scattered and undisciplined.
And so NIA, along with a number of other self-care practices I’m working into my life, has become an anchoring in the body. A reintroduction to the senses and yearnings of the mind-body-spirit, a getting to know its deep needs and wants again.
2. Dancing with the Whole Body
The very best part of NIA for me is learning to use my WHOLE body. My kneecaps, my upper back muscles, the outer edges of my heels, the long swoop of my hair.
I should say that I haven’t studied NIA: The Technique — I know there’s a lot of theory behind the all the seemingly loose technique but I don’t know a bit of it. A teacher recently mentioned the 7000-plus nerve endings in the feet and how important it was to use the whole foot as you step forward or back. I can believe it. I feel more grounded when I’m aware of the whole foot connecting, taking its stand on the earth.
The same goes for conscious placement of the flat of a hand, focusing the gaze, the alignment of the rib cage over the hips, the knees, the feet. Being aware, activating and moving the whole body. To say that at the end of a class I can feel every part of my body zinging sounds like hyperbole but it’s true.
3. Power of the Body
It may also sound simplistic to say that NIA has reintroduced me to the agency of my body. To the power my hips have to roll, my shoulders to shimmy, my fists to punch HARD!
We often become paralyzed by fears, perceptions, illusions of what we can or cannot do that we forget as humans that we have the simple power of the body to walk, move, live actively in space. We have power to DO.
Also, I did years of ballet and contemporary jazz dance as a kid. And while I’m grateful for the discipline and grace it gave me, I can do without the uptightness ballet bred in me.
NIA reminds me that my body is there to be flung and swung and jiggled and left to flop. That none of it needs to be perfect. And that just DOING is far more important than doing it right!
4. Body in Time and Place
Something else that NIA teaches — so very simple but we lose it in modern life — is an awareness of your body in space. Your body moving in space. The power of your body to move through space.
And so teachers will often shout out for you to be aware of the whole front plane of your body as you move forward or feel the length of your back body as you hunch down. Be aware of the spear of your arm, the spike of your fingers as you reach up through air, the way your limbs move across the floor in relation to all those around you.
It reminds me of the exercise we did in art class as kids — where you draw the outline of a pot plant, and then colour in only the background and in-between spaces, so that you understand positive and negative space.
5. Care of the Body
And finally, through NIA I am learning a bit of compassion for this body of mine. The one that gets me around, that gets things done, that sustained and birthed a perfectly whole little child.
Last year, my very tired post-natal body put down its foot and said, “No more,” after five years of doing a hectic two-hour commute each day and two years of nursing and caring for a small child and working full-time. My nerves were frayed, my mind exhausted. My body felt broken.
Two Nineteenth-century philosophers, brothers Augustus and Julius Hare once mused, “The body ought to be the soul’s best friend. Many good (wo)men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them.”
And so I come to NIA, to yoga, to gentle prayer, to healthy food and to rest and healing. And when I come to NIA, it is with the understanding that treating the physical body with care, with attention, with pleasure and with joy must in time rejuvenate the mind and spirit also.
Soul? Meet body. Body? This is Soul. Treat each other with care.
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Posted: September 1st, 2008 | 2 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: From the editor, Body, mind & spirit, From around the world, Giving & receiving
But Mom! Everybody Else Is Eating It!
I feel like the odd kid out … almost every South-African blog I read is doing the “What have you eaten?” meme.
So here goes … the rules:
- Bold all items you’ve eaten. And I’ll add a link to anything unusual that I’ve eaten that you might not know.
Cross outany items that you would never consider eating.
Here’s my list.
And your job? Is to add the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten to a comment below!
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros - how can you not, living in Southern California?!
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush - yum!
11. Calamari - double yum!
12. Pho - we have tons of pho restaurants here but I haven’t been yet!
13. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich
14. Aloo gobi - triple yum!
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes - we used to make homemade blackberry wine when we lived in Canada. Delish!
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - quadruple yum!
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters - yuk!
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi - had lassi but I’m not sure it was salted.
34. Sauerkraut - not a big fan.
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a big fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly - once, at a wedding, until we realized they weren’t part of the open bar!
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects - with a gun to my head … maybe!
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel - in sushi, yes.
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut - OK, but very rich and sweet! They are an bring-to-the-office staple here in the States.
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer - know what it is but never tried it. Because I’m always going for the Aloo gobi and Chicken Tikka 
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - over rated. In and Out is way better.
56. Spaetzle - yes, we have German friends who make great spatzle.
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV - probably at some point, yes.
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros (see photo above: churros with dulce de leche), elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie - seen them and they look awful!
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Taken from Hanlie, who is back at her blog - yay!
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Posted: August 30th, 2008 | 2 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: From around the world, Food & entertaining
The Very Fascinating Michelle Obama
Here in the US, we are well in the throes of this year’s Democratic National Convention. And while I was catching up on Michelle Obama’s speech on the first evening of this event, I came across a fun clip of her on the very popular American womens’ talk show The View some time back.
If you are at all inquisitive as to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama might be, take a look.Also watch much more pointed (and fascinating!) interviews with Soledad O’Brien (CNN) (highly recommended) and on Larry King Live.
And I can’t pass up the opportunity to link to Hillary Clinton’s OUTSTANDING and very graceful speech last night.
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Posted: August 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Politics & society, Living abroad, Kids & family, From around the world
Feeling Change in the Air
Depending on which hemisphere you’re in, you’re either looking forward to Spring or, like me, sensing the beginning of Fall in the air. Summer is still with us but the evenings are that little bit crisper. And I’m ready for change.
Yes, it has taken me three years but I finally have the energy and the focus to lose my post-baby pounds, all eighteen of them (that’s just over 8 kgs for those of you in civilized countries).
So I went back to what works for me and joined Weight Watchers again. It’s not that I don’t know how or what to eat. I know all about good fats and the importance of fiber and cross training so you don’t lose interest in exercising. Know all that stuff. I just need a kick in the butt every couple of years so that I DO it and do it consistently.
Like most, if I have a problem, it’s that I love good food and wine — and lots of it. That and the fact that I eat when I’m stressed or anxious. Hectic morning getting out the house and Tau to daycare? By 8:35 I’m heading to Starbucks on my way to work because I NEED that latte and a muffin! Even though I just had a bowl of cereal.
So I need a reminder every now and then and lots of moral support and Weight Watchers gives me that. The other thing I love about WW is that you don’t have to eat weird, prepackaged food. Case in point, the photo below of our dinner a couple nights ago. Chicken skewers, sweet potato rosemary chips baked in the oven and a spinach-and-avo salad. Yum!
So here’s to a change in seasons and in this body of mine — I weighed in this morning and had lost 2.4 lbs … 15.6 to go!
What shifts are you considering? What can you do between now and the end of the year that you’ve been putting off?
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Posted: August 23rd, 2008 | 3 Comments ... Your thoughts?
Categories: Body, mind & spirit, Products & services, Food & entertaining
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