Christmas has become a very capitalist-driven enterprise that pressures us all into stressfully buying a bunch of crap for our loved ones to prove our love for them. We want to stress that buying gifts is not a necessity to express your love this time [...]
Going to a foreign country for the first time has a lot of unknowns. I didn’t know if I'd like it, if I'd be safe, if I'd be myself, nothing…I was walking in blind. I didn’t know how I could prepare myself, so I just [...]
Mantra's are nice and feel good and all but sometimes all that light and sparkles needs a bit more grit to feel like me. Here are ten no-bullshit affirmations to turn your average day around. - Caitlin 1. I fiercely love and champion myself, exactly as I [...]
Where are you from? I am from Yankalilla, a small country town in South Australia. But my latest hometown of ten years before moving to El Salvador was the city of Perth, Australia. What got you into writing ? I have always written, ever since [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française This recipe is perfect for the roasted chicken & rice night leftovers! Plus, it's easy, quick and tasty! ↠ Ingredients ↞ Serves about 4 Vinaigrette 2 tablespoon of nuoc mam (fish sauce) 2 tablespoon of sugar 2 [...]
It’s easy to love yourself when you’re feeling productive.It’s harder when you’ve been procrastinating for four hours and you feel like any move toward doing something constructive is a slow crawl through thick mud. It’s easy to love yourself and feel like a MF [...]
Tonight, I shook hands with a guy that had literally just treated me with disrespect. I was furious and offended, and I still offered my hand. Only to walk away and suddenly want to explode with all the things I actually meant to tell [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française ↠ Ingredients ↞ Serves about 2 The oatmeal 1/2 cup of quinoa 1/2 cup of large flake oats 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk 1 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon of [...]
(Co-written by Caitlin Creeper and Erika Drolet) Dear daughter, As much as I would like to nurture and protect you from the wildness of the world we live in, I also know that life is one hell of a great adventure that has to be [...]
Jinna Yang interviewed by Caitlin Creeper It's been three years since Jinna Yang quit her corporate job in New York City to pursue photography full time. What started as a late-night, weekend hobby turned into her everyday career through a lot of sweat, hard work [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française Although we are called the Salty Team as a derivative of the company name, truth is, when it comes to food, our sweet tooths are uncontrollable. We do eat really well and like to promote healthy habits... [...]
*This is actually a journal entry from January 2016. I had just moved from Perth, Australia, to South Australia, without any clue what my next life step was. This was before I moved overseas. Before I turned writing into my full-time job. Before I learnt that [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française With the term Superfood came the name of its most well-known ambassador, the king of all, the notorious chia seed. Its popularity just exploded in the past few years and it became THE healthy thing YOU HAD [...]
Running away from all the "bad feels" Ya know when sometimes you're not having a great day and you tell a loved one and they try come up with a solution for you... but that isn't really what you wanted? You just wanted someone to [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française One of the good things about travelling is that you are always discovering new food and tasting new flavours. Initially, it will be inspiring, but after a week of getting excited about the new local dishes, you [...]
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. - Audre Lorde Also published at Elephant Journal. I refuse to be the “chill girl.” If you interrupt me I will not let it slide. [...]
Do you remember the last time you felt an absolute moment of bliss ? You know, I’m sure you do, of those moments where the world stopped spinning for an instant. In that moment all the dots seem to connect. Every focal points that creates [...]
Ok dude. Let’s get this clear. Falling. What is it? Gravity pulling you down at 9,81 m/s2? Falling down the stairs? Falling off a twenty-storey building? Or even falling in love? (yeah, that one can mess you up real good too.) Falling also sounds like [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française In my young age, I was fooled several times by my mother's cruditè plates. Too many times I crunched with enthusiasm into what I thought was a cucumber stick, but which turned out to be raw zucchini. [...]
All these boxes These checklists women prepare Dot-points, paragraphs and rulebooks on what their ideal partner must have Before they will even think to open their hearts, to share their lives with someone I hear this so often He’ll have his own successful company and [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française Because your classic apple crisp dreams of a little exoticism too ;) In terms of desserts, the croustade -or crisp in English- is already an interesting healthy option in itself. I have made this version even healthier [...]
You know what's fun? Not long haul flights. Before we get started, let me just say I know how blatantly that comment displays an inherent privelege and feverish arrogance and I am lucky to have the agency and socioeconomic status and financial means (ish) to [...]
Photo par Morgan Maassen Soyons respectueux devant le possible dont nul ne sait la limite - Victor Hugo En lisant récemment mon dernier exemplaire de Surfer Magazine, j’en suis venue à réfléchir au concept de frontières ou plutôt au concept de limites. Bien sûr, d’un point [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française Energy balls were my first contact with raw food! To me, it was a totally new concept, different and intriguing. A few years later, based on the memory of this first experience, I developed my own energy ball [...]
I’ve been a Grey’s Anatomy fan since forever, way before I went to medical school. I remember watching all first three seasons in a record-breaking short amount of time and thinking I wanted to be Meredith Grey. Now, let me clear the air before I [...]
For all of those moments that are pure bliss, bright and shiny, full of love and laughter, there are moments that are uncomfortable. The happy moments are welcomed, content we live in the present with them and cling to them from our past. I say [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française Just when I finished my Bachelor degree, MC and I made a backpack trip to Mexico. You know, the classic trip where you go around youth hostels with two pairs of shorts and three t-shirts. I do not know how exactly, but our journey took a whole different turn on our way to Mexico City. […]
I grew up in a first-world country in a family that was financially, in a word, fine. We weren't the richest, but we never starved, and I always had access to as much water as I wanted. It is insane to me now how much [...]
It all started with some hot sauce... I went out for dinner with a friend last night, this cool little bar that specialises in hot sauces. So like, they bring out about seven hot sauces, all ranging from mild to please-for-the-love-of-god-don't-do-sexy-things-with-your-boy-after-eating-this-cause-you-will-set-their-peenie-on-fire kind of hot. Anyway, [...]
↠ Défilez vers le bas pour la version française Many photographers will tell you, it can be laborious and time consuming to personify your style as an image artist. Looking at my photos of recipes that were taken more than a year ago, I realize that [...]
