The Adventures of Roberta X

     I was diagnosed with an eye infection in my non-dominant eye some time back, and prescribed steroid-antibiotic eye drops to treat it.  ...

     Will Murray was a pulp historian, literary agent for the estate of Doc Savage creator Lester Dent, and a pulp writer himself.  He'd...

     Nope, not my back -- my toolbox.      Working on my off-center-fed dipole ham antenna in its post-treefall location, I was using a 3/8...

     Tam and I enjoyed pork barbecue Friday night, the kind that consists of pork and a few vegetable cooked down in a smoky, tomato-based s...

     Okay, maybe it's not exactly his style, but if you're not claustrophobic -- and I most definitely am not -- and you put in the ...

      A part of my day will be about imaging -- they're going to stick me in an MRI machine* and look at my back.  It's still giving...

     His most famous role never held much interest for me, though I was happy that the more extroverted outcasts, oddballs and theater kids ...

     If there's any carrier offering "Medigap" insurance who will tell you what their various plans cost before they sit you d...

     The net goodness of the world diminished a little yesterday, when Dolly Parton died.  In the face of a world filled with all manner of ...

     How knowledge fades: Tam was playing back an interview about storm damage in our a neighborhood a couple of weeks ago, as in the tree t...

     Not the actual plodding kind of horse but the TV series Slow Horses , based on the book series, a kind of affectionate homage to the wo...

     Still waiting on more examples, but so far, my theory about what it takes to run a successful human spaceflight program is holding wate...