Posted by Loulou on Feb 8, 2014 | 0 comments

Stars and Stripes and thanks to Ryan Pierse, photographer for this great image! Wow, did you see those outfits on the athletes during the opening?  The Irish in green (even if it was pea/army/yellowish) and the Iranian lady in headscarf and long skirt while all the others’ knees were flashing and the Americans in red, white, and blue with stars and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 7, 2014 | 0 comments

  I just can’t get anything to come out! Maybe I should gargle… I lost my voice once. I don’t know what happened but I tried to myow and only a squeak came out.  It didn’t last long, but it was a bit claustrophobic and certainly a surprise to me, I who never make a peep unless it’s for a reason—food, for example, or...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 6, 2014 | 0 comments

I loved that chapter! Keep reading! Mama says, “With emphasis on the ‘joy’!” Do you ever read books that have characters that you want to take home and have dinner with and let them into your life forever?  Well, that’s how mama reads books, and I must say, she’s told me that when she reads, she makes a private,...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 5, 2014 | 0 comments

What’s that heavenly smell? Does anyone even remember that phrase?  I’ve been hearing it ever since mama discovered that I get a wistful look on my muzzle when papa eats fruit yogurt after dinner to balance out the French chocolates and Armagnac that have a little stronger pull… Papa is beautiful and kind to others and has a generous heart and...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 3, 2014 | 0 comments

University of North Carolina With all due respect to the Everly Brothers, that song could be the campaign music for Emilio Vicente, a junior at the University of North Carolina who is running for student body president.  He is Latino, he is gay, he is undocumented and is he fighting for the rights of immigrants everywhere.  Today mama read me Frank...

Posted by Loulou on Feb 2, 2014 | 2 comments

Something WAS out there, I’m telling you! And it wasn’t a SHADOW! Well, Candelmas is certainly a prettier name for Groundhog Day, I have to say.  I wonder if there is kittyhog day?  Sometimes when I go outside and see my shadow, I run like bloody hell (haha, it’s all a game) and throw open the kitchen door and hightail it for upstairs....

Posted by Loulou on Feb 1, 2014 | 0 comments

This is NOT mama sneezing but it was the nicest sneeze I could find… The title of this blog sounds Chinese, which is appropriate because this is the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Horse, but actually, I used that title because mama has a cold and feels like hell and I’m going to have to bow out of writing too much just now...