Let’s Get Cookin’
Hey, I’m the taster, okay, but mama forgot to put in the kibble! With apologies to mama’s friend, Phyllis Vaccarelli, who has a cooking school in Los Angeles (where...
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Daydreaming…a form of poetry. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. Dylan Thomas Mama loves poetry. I think I mentioned that even in our local...
Home, Not So Sweet Home
Well, with all the press on Jerry Brown’s pay equalization, there seems to have slipped through the cracks this one very important piece of info, which mama’s...
Shadow Dancing II
That’s mama and papa dancing on the hedge of autumn ivy. Well, mama has this thing about taking shadow pics of herself and things but I move around too much to get very...
Human Rites
This morning mama received an email from the ACLU, asking for a signature to bring suit against two psychologists (!) who instigated the program of torture for the CIA. Torture...
THANKS TO ALL NEW READERS!
Well, mama says it’s time again to say thank you to registering readers and let them know that she looks at every one and sees the name and is fascinated that you all come...
Best Shots
Drink LOTS of water No, no these aren’t photos today. I’m talking about that lady who showed up here this morning and stuck mama and papa with a long pointy thing...
California, Here it Goes
Well, mama is really pleased at the pay equity law passed by Jerry Brown in California. Although California already has equal pay laws for men and women, the law pushes the...
Word Play
All talked out… So, maybe you don’t know this, but I listen to conversations between mama and papa all day long, which is to say that they really like to yak...
Goodbyes
Some of mama’s brother’s handiwork–toy lead soldiers in tableaux, hand made, hand painted, unlike any others. Mama says that even if you say goodbye to someone...
Feral and Fantastic
Cassidy-learning to use his miraculous wheelchair Well, I just couldn’t pass this up. I don’t ordinarily read many of these items because there are just too many in...
Scallop Surprise
In the beginning, there was the olive oil. And the onion and the rice and the… Well, mama was thinking of having this lunch party and unfroze some little bay scallops for...
Strawberries on a Tree?
Above you will see fruit forming on our strawberry tree (arbousier). They grow in the wild here but our neighbour planted this one years ago on his brother’s property,...
Pen Pals
(And I don’t mean pen as in those places you keep chickens and doggies and such. Have you ever seen a kitty in a pen? NO WAY, Jose.) Well, I just received this amazingly...
A Couple of Bickers
Well, I’ve been thinkin’. Sometimes when we have company, I catch a funny look on mama’s face when no one is looking and I have deduced (whatever that means)...
Hollow Bone Heaven
No, I did not tear the throat out of a tyrannosaurus… Well, there were some people coming for lunch the other day and I thought I would just whip up a little ossobuco for...
Praise for the Milanesi
It’s just too schizophrenic around here in the morning. Yesterday I read that the mayor of Milan was giving shelter, clothes and food to immigrants and allowed them to...
A Leg Up
I don’t think Jimmy Choo’s will fit over this (whatever they are). Oh, mama is so, so sorry for her ex-sister-in-law who fell a couple of weeks ago and fractured her...
Guns Kill. Period.
School supplies. Are we out of our minds? So papa was thinking this morning after, having mama read out loud the very perceptive blog from www.it’snoodle!com, that no one...
School Lunch
Let’s make a pesto of ourselves, haha! Oh, boy, some kids are really lucky. Mama gets really tickled when she sees the weekly menus in the newspaper for the kids’...
A New Twist On A Wrist
(Thanks to Rosiland Nelson for sending these great kitty pics to me, Loulou, even though I was a bit jealous of this one’s cute-itude) Well, this about says it all...
Sunday in the Market With Mama
Well, if there is anything better to cheer up a sad mama, I don’t know it. The market here is so very beautiful and so full of lovely autumn mushrooms and wonderful...
Afterlife
Marathon Morning Well, this is not easy to write about, because mama doesn’t have any illusions about past or future lives that one might live, preferring to try to be in...
Bagpipes and Brilliance
A very young piper A very young soldier Mama’s brother died two nights ago in Kerrville after a long illness associated with dementia. He was in great pain, could not...
Stormy Seas
Well, this morning I tried to go out as usual and was hit by a fierce wind and water coming down all over my newly-washed pelt! The nerve of Mama Nature to pour gallons of water...
Moon Musings
(www.goerie.com–thank you) Well, the other night, mama and papa and I watched as a big yellow ball in the sky slowly disappeared into darkness, except it wasn’t dark...
Happy Talk
Cell phones aren’t the only way to communicate! Well, today I read in the NYT (and I use initials only because everyone else does because, frankly, neither mama nor I...
Photo Shoot
Well, today is Monday and I think since mama is working in the yard with no help so I had better get out there and dig for her, maybe claw some bark off the arbousier, take a...
Cat-alans Launch Their Future
This is far more complicated than can be addressed by this kitty in one short blog…but still, food for thought. No, the Catalans are not voting for a cat to lead them,...
Cattle Prods
I love that little one…maybe I could ride on him. The buttari in their glory… Well, something really magical happens in Tuscany at this time of year—the transumanza,...