Well, they’re having a gathering. When that happens, they take my little table where I eat and use it for water and wine and other things they don’t want on THEIR table, and so I have to go find the place they’ve chosen for me for MY dinner this time and I certainly hope it works for me. Change is okay, but not where food is concerned....
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They do WHAT to young women? Mama was talking to me yesterday about a subject that is not the happiest. These things happen. We talk about everything, after all. Recently, here in Rome, a day was designated to bring an awareness and education to those who perpetrate violent acts against women. Buses advertised places women could contact if there was a...
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WOW! Six years with this dude? Why not? Did you know that an amazing man is walking across the WORLD? Boy, I’ve heard of lost kitties finding their families across miles and miles of territory, but it’s hard for me to imagine a kitty walking across the globe! Mama was struck by this amazing story, because she says she has a piece of what Paul...
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Sage for the bird! Now—mama says that everyone has a favorite stuffing (called “dressing” in the south; not to be confused with salad dressing, haha), but her mama’s stuffing/dressing was famous in Houston, and her mama used to make it for Christmas gifts for her friends! I try to help mama when she makes the dressing, because she makes...
Read MoreThis turkey looks really good, but use a bigger pan, mama says, so that you’ll have more juice for gravy. Well, the day is about to roll around again, and looking over my ruminations (love that word!) that last Thanksgiving, I meandered a bit and wrote an awful lot of stuff about kids coming over here to celebrate and what happened and stuff that...
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You paid WHAT for that lump of dirt? What’s that smell??? Wow, this house is pretty smelly. Papa went bananas and found a really good source of truffles in Alba (where I’m told the really good ones pop up) and he just went for it since it’s been several years, he says, that he and mama had a little...
Read MoreCan you believe this? In Naples, people desperate to make a living just find any spot available–a basement, a storeroom, dirty, clean, whatever–and just start baking bread and selling it on the streets out of the back of cars, with the backing and blessing of the camorra (Neapolitan mafia), who take a cut. The fact that mama and papa had a...
Read MoreOh, boy, there’s a real interest around this domus in those things you attach to your head that make you smarter or enhance your memory or speed up your piano-playing abilities—something like that anyway. I just wish mama and papa would wire up and remember that I am to be FED around 7pm and that those little cutsey-pootsey twists and turns I...
Read MoreEven though I cannot go to amusement parks or theatres or sports clubs or any of those things anthros seem to love, I can read about them and I do. And the disturbing article I read a few days ago was about how more and more people with money are separating themselves from those with less, for example, by buying the top tickets at, say, Disney World...
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EUREKA!!!! Boy, just imagine—you’re lying in bed, in that funny state between wakefulness and sleep and all of a sudden, bammo!!! An idea springs from nowhere that is going to change the fate of some babies everywhere, especially in poor countries where there might be a shortage of doctors. Jorge Odón, a 59-year-old car mechanic, woke up with the...
Read More(Thank you, resourcemagonline.com) Oh, boy, was I tickled to see this in the business section of my favorite newspaper. It seems that a little 8-year-old girl was so moved by seeing children overworked in Nepal, holding hands for moral support (as they carried huge rocks down a hillside for their demanding bosses) that she started selling lemonade to the...
Read More(BEAUTIFUL, NO?) Mama spent the whole morning trying to explain the Higgs field, and boson, named after Peter Higgs who first theorized that it existed, and the Higgs field to me and I’m not sure she understands anything at all about it and only wish our friend Martin, the physicist, was around right now because HE could explain it much better (no...
Read More(My favourite cartoon!) Yeah, yeah, I know, that’s not the real title, but hey, it’s appropriate for November because in many ways, November is a month to sing about. I realized the other day, looking out of my Roman window, that the kids at the school next door are sort of anticipatory-ish about having holidays pretty soon, and I’ve...
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(There’s a rodent in there, I just know it!) Papa noticed that golfers are a bit like kitties. And I was watching tv with him when those guys stepped up to their balls, so to speak, and when they stand there, before whacking that little ball, they sort of wiggle their rears exactly the way I wiggle mine before pouncing on something. Maybe they...
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(Photograph from article in The New York Times) Can up believe this? Boy, is mama hot under the collar. When she read me the story about Venezuela and how women in that country are obsessed with having outlandish bodies through surgery, and the maker of store mannequins is re-doing its prototypes to look like bosomy Barbies, I was really glad to be a...
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Hey, I’ve got my beret and tickets and walkin’ paws and am ready for the TGV… Mama just came across some notes she took a few years ago when she and papa were meeting old friends in Paris. Boy, if I had been around then, I would have jumped in my personal travel case in a New York minute! EiffelTower, great food, beautiful river,...
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Here I am, contemplating the catalogue for the Rome Film Festival, to which mama will NOT take me as I get a bit anxious in crowds—especially cinephiles! BUT…I can still think about what I would have seen had I taken to that leash with a bit more enthusiasm… Mama and papa are going to something called Gods Behaving Badly, which sounds okay to me as...
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In this case, not religion. It is opium and in huge quantities, produced in Afganistan with results that 5.3 percent of the population are addicts, one of the highest percentages in the world (International New York Times, Monday, November 4), and the ‘people’ are kids. In one area, the Herat Province, lauded for its progressive society and...
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Well, this huge crowd of people came through the door a few minutes ago and there were little anthros who snuggled me and played duets on the piano (hey, those kids are GOOD—fame, here they come) and made me feel happy in general because I don’t have a lot to do here without the garden. Then the whole group went off to see the Pope. Well,...
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http://blog4peace.com/ Today I would like to offer this site to all kitties and anthros because we are blogging for Peace, with a capital “P”… I read so many, many stories in the paper about upheavals in so many countries that I don’t even know which one to chose for comments. And what can a lowly little kitty do anyway? Well, I...
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