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29 Oct A warning to Fiapoto Wives everywhere (From Madam Hydra)

Once upon a time, there was a very clever (and stunningly beautiful) woman called Lani. One morning she woke up with a pesky itch on the side of her neck. It could have been a mosquito bite? Or a pimple? Either way, it was irritating...

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16 Apr Let Food Be Thy Medicine

I've been struggling with rubbish health issues over the last two years. Everything from killer anemia to a mutant uterus to inexplicable fatigue to photodermatitis to a foggy brain that cant seem to process stuff easily to being a bloated whale all the time to...

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14 Sep My Mutant Uterus.

For several years now, I've been having some health problems which various doctors have tried to fix with various remedies. I finally got some clear answers on my recent trip to New Zealand. Yay! One of those answers being, that I have a mutant uterus....

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24 Jun Pray for Happy Periods

So we've been trying in our house, to take the YUCK out of menstruation. Make periods NOT shameful, NOT secret, NOT dirty and NOT horrifying. We give em the biological facts, we talk about various bodily functions openly and without hushed whispers, and we try...

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11 May Is Your Wife Eating all Your Food?

Is it just Samoans who like to comment loudly on peoples appearance, specifically their weight? When someone hasnt seen me in awhile its always, "Ua e lapo'a" ie you're so fat! It goes the other way too, they tell my Ironman athlete husband "Ua e...

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09 Oct “You can’t be happy when you’re fat. No-one can.”

A while back, Bella was getting dressed for school when she uttered words that broke my heart. "Mama, I'm fat. But I want to be skinny like Kelly. See my tummy?" She pulled up her shirt to show me a beautiful belly that loves tickles. And I looked...

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19 Sep Sex-Breasts VS Milk-Making Ones

In this week's Samoa Observer column, I get to talk about breasts. Yay fun! "if breastfeeding is so good for everyone involved, then why is there sometimes an air of indelicate shame and discomfort about it in the ‘modern’ palagi country I currently live in?...

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10 Sep Children are Dream-Killers

One woman. Running over 104km of scorching road...

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