Posted by Loulou on Oct 7, 2013 | 1 comment

Achilles being educated by Chiron   Mama was crying last night. She had just finished The Song of Achilles, I, snoozing between her knees in full, stretched out position for comfort and I heard this snuffling and sniffing and realize that mama was teary.  But it looked like a good-teary, not one of those bad-tearies that I’m sure she would have...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 6, 2013 | 0 comments

“I don’t know–Am I suppose to have something in here?” You know, mama showed me a cartoon in the Italian paper this morning and there was this drawing of a guy who looked a lot like Berlusconi and he’s talking to his little doggie and it looks as if he is saying “So are you with me, little cute doggie?” And the...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 4, 2013 | 0 comments

(This is the first decent sleep I’ve had since they left!) Well, they are BACK!!!!!! I managed to do a few tricks for them, pretending joy at their arrival–I threw my catnip mouse in the air and caught it and ran around like a crazed weasel for a few minutes and purred appropriately and then that nice lady left (the one who fed me and snuggled...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 2, 2013 | 0 comments

A little sadness here in the family. One of mama’s favorite cookbook writers and people, Marcella Hazan, died this week. Mama says that papa and she went to a book-signing at the public library in Los Angeles some years ago and that she and her adorable husband were such lovely people and they talked and talked about food and mama took her some bread...

Posted by Loulou on Oct 1, 2013 | 0 comments

Well, finally!!! Our favorite soccer team is numero uno; you know, the one I watch with mama and papa every week that last year did not do so well with the old footsies…. But NOW. WOW! Out of 9 shots there were 6 on target and out of those, five goals!! That’s not chopped liver, as we kitties say. Those guys are amazing. Gervinho, Florenzi, Benatia,...