Posted by Loulou on Mar 10, 2015 | 9 comments

Oh, boy, am I impressed with a little column in The New Yorker in the Raised Eyebrow Department about a very special woman, Lenore Skenazy, who has started a movement called “Free Range Kids”, an organization that is (to quote from the group’s Web site: “Fighting the belief that our children are in constant danger from creeps, kidnapping,...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 9, 2015 | 4 comments

Oh, I forgot to put Poetry and Literature on the list. Well, mama and I am pretty fed up with seeing and hearing bad news all the time and so mama has suggested to me that I try to find nice things to write about (as a kid, she remembers her mama saying, “Don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice”, just when she was getting...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 8, 2015 | 2 comments

Mama read me that Officer Matthew Kenny shot 19-year-old Anthony Robinson dead in an apartment in Madison, Wisconsin “after a scuffle.” When are these police officers going to be trained to not be so trigger-happy, and who is going to find out why they are there in the first place if they don’t have any solution other than KILLING a kid...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 7, 2015 | 8 comments

You know, mama just loves the information given her by our garden guru who lives next door and who ‘farms’ that great garden upon which I gaze daily.  Here’s another photo just so you remember it from other blogs. Not shabby, eh?  But right now it looks like this, being prepped for all the root vegetables that Jean will plant as the full...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 6, 2015 | 2 comments

A young trio… All grown up! Well,, last night I was sleeping peacefully when papa changed the soccer station to another Italian program and it was all about the music festival at San Remo where mama was eons ago in another life and I have to say, I woke straight up out of sleep and was enchanted by three young men in a group called Il Volo singing...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 5, 2015 | 4 comments

Lest we forget WHERE Ferguson is!! Ironic to be near a town called Berkeley… Imagine a city in which black citizens (and other minorities, no doubt) are targeted to help pay for the city’s expenses. Where kids in cars are arrested for pot they do not possess or for walking in a ‘funny way’, and where a man waiting in his car to rest...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 4, 2015 | 5 comments

Don’t make me hear that speech again!!! Well, mama is even more convinced that Mr. N has to be ousted in Israel. He is a war-monger in mama’s eyes and would just as soon see Iran disappear along with all of the Palestinians following behind. He’s like an Indian on the war path…”YAHOO, YAHOO!” What on earth does this man think...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 3, 2015 | 4 comments

Well, it’s somewhere in here but who knows where? Lumbar, I think, whatever that is. I thought that’s what you use to build houses, haha! I’m sorry, dear readers.  Today mama has been walking around with a pinched something or other and every now and then I see her moving perfectly normally and then bammo, she crumbles for a moment, does...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 2, 2015 | 2 comments

So mama is wondering, now that the terrorist Imwazi is exposed to be just a guy who was able to take off heads of other human beings and various other horrendous acts, if other young people around the world will see him as someone just like themselves and say, “Wow, look, I can be famous and go viral if I’m able to commit atrocious acts for a...

Posted by Loulou on Mar 1, 2015 | 4 comments

In Columbia, SA, the children teach the teachers. La Escuela Nueva is the name for schools in Columbia that house children of all ages, each of whom works on projects appropriate to his age group, and each of whom instructs new teachers in the educational system that the Escuela Nueva utilizes in its democratic education system. Mama says it’s like...