Soul Food
Ready for the multitudes… Families are like salads–full of all sorts of surprises and sometimes, they need another good toss! I think I want to make my blog today out...
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They came in and I went out. I dug for awhile before I came in, and that really ticked them off. Well, I foxed ’em this time. They always expect me to wiggle around their...
Home Body
I ‘m turning my back on those anthros. Well, those guys are out traipsing around places I have never been and probably won’t get to...
Send ‘Em Packing
I’m just going to roll up in a ball and get under this tee shirt and they can find me when they unpack. Oh, boy, they’re at it again and naturally I can tell by the...
Traitors
Well, they are at it again. I mean who is more important in this crazy world, David Bowie and his retrospective at a wild new concert hall on the outskirts of...
Fighting Females
(Thank you, Inquisitr) Well, this one is right down our alley. Female commandos fighting the Taliban in Pakistan! What a brilliant turn of the tables and these women are treated...
Hearts and Minds
What does one do when one gets sad and disturbing news? I’ve thought about this a lot and I always want to get near the human and let her, in this case, know I am there to...
Cuba Libre!
Mariela Castro – what a nice face! (Reuters file photo-thank you) Well, mama is really happy that Mariela Castro, daughter of Raul and niece of Fidel, is leading a movement...
More Pig Tales
The Hunter The Hunted (Actually, scratch that–pigeons too big for this kitty) Well, because of all the nice friends out there, one of mama’s friends just sent her...
Follow-ups
These guys (processionary caterpillars) follow each other in long lines–(DO NOT TOUCH ONE as they are poisonous and can cause swelling and pain where touched) Well,...
When Pigs Fly!
Oh, boy, mama is really on her warpath now after having read a piece in The New York Times about the Chinese program to ‘exercise’ pigs and create better meat. The...
Cat-astrophy
Mama tried to hide my pill in between my toes but no way am I taking a pill that’s been THERE! Well, mama thinks this is so funny and although I did not laugh that much at...
What Do You Think?
A very good cartoonist, Ed Travers You know that incident in Texas? Well, mama and I are curious about what others think when a religion is the target of those whose beliefs...
Outlaws
It seems to me that if there can be an Anti-Muslim organization in Texas, then anyone anywhere can start an anti-ANYTHING organization and I’m not talking about MADD or...
Move Over, Rover
Sometimes, it’s just the couch… Oh, boy, am I going to have to be careful with what I say here. Today’s New York Times has a story about a man whose girlfriend...
Skirting The Issue
(Photo from AFP) Well, I was really not happy with the school here in France that sent a young Muslim girl home because of her long skirt. The laïcité policy of the French...
May Day Musings
At least we have THESE to munch upon…with pecorino, but that’s all we have. Hurrah and thank you to all the workers everywhere who have toiled and suffered and...
Loathsome Leaders
One example: Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. Net worth: 20 billion Everyone is saying, gee, why doesn’t the EU do more for the boat people and patrol the open seas in a...
Survival
Maybe better not to mess with this dude… Well, I just have to bring your attention to a story mama read to me this morning about a boy and a dog, from The New York Times...
At Sea
Imagine days of this and no help… Mama and I are in tears over the 800 immigrants who paid 1000 dollars each to get out of their dangerous lives and died at sea last week....
Sweet Briars
Protesting the closing of Sweet Briar (The Lynchburg News and Advance) Well, mama says there is talk of closing down a school where she went for a year, Sweet Briar college, in...
Not Great Shakes
Unimaginable… Today I only wish to say how sad we are for the disasters that have occurred this week in Chile and Nepal, and all of us in this house send hopes that the...
Size Matters
Really? Yes, really. Well, I’m actually talking about food here and maybe I haven’t covered this before except cursorily, whatever that means, but when I help in the...
Another Merci, Grazie, Thank You
I’m so happy to have new readers! It really tickles me… I just have to say thank you to the new readers who have signed up from all over the place, and I wish I could...
Simplicity
Tian de Courgettes (all onion, zucchine, tomato, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper–bake at medium high temp for 45 minutes–what’s not to like?) You know,...
Big Planet Day
Mama’s shrimp curry plus condiments. Whatever they are. Thank you, Island Cats, for reminding me that today is Earth Day, which was begun in 1969 to make humans/anthros...
Spring Forward
Ready for pecorino Yeah, well, I’m ‘falling back’ instead. There is no spring around these parts even if all mama’s roses are just about to burst open and...
Age Before Beauty
These beauties are all over 80, and the one in the middle, 98. See, there is hope for us all. Mama tells me they used to say that when she was young when someone pushed in front...
You Gotta Have Art; All You Really Need Is Art
Well, my auntie, which is mama’s ex-sister-in-law, suggested a book for mama, The Lives of the Artists, and now mama is going bananas over Jasper Johns, Damian Hirst, Cindy...
Snap Decisions
Mama was showing me some lovely works by Sally Mann, the artist who followed her childrens’ lives from birth to the present with photography and whose books have always...