Posted by Loulou on Feb 28, 2015 | 0 comments

I’m sneakin’ up on mama to look over her shoulder at the new book… Well, mama came across a new book title today in the NYT by a woman who is writing about sexual difficulties and questions, women’s in particular, and how so many anthros think something is wrong with them when they don’t have enough…oomph…or drive…or whatever...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 27, 2015 | 6 comments

I know this is pretty uninteresting to anyone but I’d just like you to know that I was being chased by a black suitor and it was raining and I skidded practically into our French doors whilst trying to get to safety.  Hey, I can’t help it if it’s open season on kitty dating!!! So aside from this fascinating photo above, I’d like to...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 26, 2015 | 2 comments

Well, mama is doing this French course with One On One, which is a really great website with actual teachers who Skype with the the student and get into really intensive hour-long French for only 29 euros per hour. And if you already speak some French, as this kitty does (sort of), it is an energetic boost to one’s knowledge, plus the teach mama has...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 25, 2015 | 4 comments

Oh, boy, all of us here were fascinated by the article on the French babies who were switched at the hospital by a nurse, and who then grew up with the wrong families!  So bizarre—but each of the mothers started noticing that the hair and skin of their babies were different from those of each family’s genes! When one of the fathers insisted on a...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 24, 2015 | 2 comments

Well, by the time mama went through her list of things to see to, do, fix, wash, dry, plant, paint, cook, polish, sweep, clean, and then all the things she does for ME–feed, brush, fill water bowl, open door to garden, close door to garden, open door again for me to come in, close door to keep out cold, open door again to let me out, close door...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 23, 2015 | 4 comments

Hey, I’m just singin’ along with Lady Gaga…”The hills are alive…” Well, not me, obviously. I thought I was up for Best Supporting Role As A Household Pet In “Imitation Game” or at least a prize for my walk-on role in “Gone Girl” (I was in costume) but alas, no golden statues for me. Oh, but I...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 22, 2015 | 4 comments

Mama is adding something to my blog today that you might enjoy—a short interview with W. S. Merwin, the twice-poet laureate of America and winner of almost any literary prize you can name for his amazing works.  He is also mama and papa’s brother-in-law. William found a piece of ruined property years ago on Maui and brought it slowly back to life....

Posted by Loulou on Feb 21, 2015 | 4 comments

A very old Felixia belonging to Mr. Phillips at www.rachphillips.com (thank you)…maybe eating grass keeps you going! Well, mama was reading me an article this morning about Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 90 (an amazing woman if ever there was one) and I started thinking about all the people mama tells me about who lived to be over 90 (Elizabeth Schwartzkopf,...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 20, 2015 | 6 comments

(Thank you, Yahoo Sports for this photo) “Oh, boy, mama and papa both had hurting hearts  last night when they saw the devastation that the Feyenoord ultra fans had wreaked upon their beloved Roma.  The piazza di Spagna was trashed, bottled thrown everywhere including into the 400-year-old Barcaccia fountain. The following is a quote from the link...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 19, 2015 | 4 comments

The theme of carnival was Music, but I can’t figure out what this doggy is doing! Three Dog Night? Doggie in the Window?  Well, since I didn’t get to go, mama and papa brought back photos of carnival de Nice, and although mama once lived in a place where carnival was pretty important, she had NEVER seen anything  like this!! And it was sane and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 18, 2015 | 4 comments

Well, here it comes—rollicking times in the streets, parades, costumes (unfortunately in the northern hemisphere, not many tongas and feathers…brrrr), battles with flowers, decorated boats, feasting and merriment to prepare for, in the Christian world, lent. A pagan rite with origins in ancient Rone. Sounds appropriate… Wikipedia states: “Popular...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 17, 2015 | 2 comments

Good news–the rain is moving away to go somewhere else! Well, I was skipping around the internet and guess what I found?  This. As I was wondering if all the news that’s fit to print is often negative and sad and anxiety-causing, I found The Good News site on which one is able to find lots and lots of good news to counterbalance most of the...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 15, 2015 | 4 comments

“Get thee to a custard dish. NOW! I need to boogie!” Oh, boy is mama happy. I, personally, do not see the pull of an egg, raw or cooked, which is strange for a kitty, but mama loves eggs in any form and was tickled to see that one of the world’s oldest living human beings (115) ate 3 eggs a day, RAW, during her life and now only eats 2 as...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 14, 2015 | 8 comments

Well, they have wine, olives and potato chips in common…that’s a good start, haha. Well, I truly believe that and what mama and papa did some of this day of love was tell one another how many things they have in common (like ME) and how nice that is and often makes life a bit easier because you don’t have to argue every little point and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 13, 2015 | 4 comments

I’m just waiting here to say “Happy Valentine’s” to that little birdie I saw a minute ago…he has to bathe sometime…and I’ll give him a little Valentine rub like the one I’m giving everyone, heh, heh. Just think of this as a sort of Catettes chorus line of Happy Valentine’s greetings to all of you and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 11, 2015 | 4 comments

Well, today I am only reminding you that someone in your life would love a Valentine and you only have two days left to get on Bluemountain or whatever online card site you like and send your love and affection to someone who will be very happy to receive it. Here (when mama is not looking) I am baking heart-shaped lemon tarts out of the new recipe and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 10, 2015 | 3 comments

So can you tell if this rider is Muslim or not? Of course not. He is free to be anyone, supposedly…not so, in Texas!!! Boy, I think I’m going to advise mama to not read the news each day and just become one of those oysters who bury themselves in the sand. “It’s ostrich, Loulou, not oyster,” mama correccts me. Whatever—If...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 9, 2015 | 3 comments

  Mama, where’s my thumbpick? Well, mama just read Bob Dylan’s speech to the Grammy audience after he was given an award from MusiCare, an organization that helps musicians financially, physically and more, and mama was in tears.  I’m sure most of the audience was, too, eventually. What a writer! It was a long speech.  It IS a long...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 8, 2015 | 6 comments

Gee, I wonder why there are only 11 lemon tarts…? Papa…have you been in the kitchen recently, hmmm? Well, I know there are large issues on our horizons and political upheavals and horrendous acts of unimaginable cruelty in the news and today, I just felt like taking a little corner of the world and sending praise to a young woman with a blog...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 7, 2015 | 1 comment

Oh, boy is mama fuming over response to the President’s statements about the Crusades. For…how many years now…about a gazillion, she and papa have discussed religion and its origins and its assets and its drawbacks and how faith certainly can be a healer but also a hinderer, depending on how tenaciously one clings to one’s beliefs and how...