The Adventures of Roberta X

     It starts small.  It starts with something that doesn't matter to most people.      The Trump administration removed all mentions ...

     Today, the high reached 40°F.  Tonight's predicted low will be 33°.  We haven't seen our last freeze of the winter, I expect, b...

      A commenter asked, "What's a dungaree, anyway?"      It turns out that's quite a question.  The easy answer is that...

      Saturday is my day to do laundry.  Especially this week -- I've got to fill in at work on Sunday.  So it had to get done today.  ...

      After all, it is winter.  What did I expect?  But I still don't like it much.

     The first place I saw the company logo was the same as a lot of people: on an amplifier.  You saw big ones at concerts and smaller ones...

      Yesterday's high was at least 30°F and it was a real relief.  After a long stretch of single-digit temperatures either side of zer...

     After recent special elections keep turning up surprise Democrat victories in states and districts that heed been electing Republicans ...

     It was more or less succotash.  And it worked out well.      I wasn't feeling especially ambitious for dinner.  There was a packag...

     The indictment against journalists Don Lemon, Georgia Fort and several apparent protestors (or maybe reporters)  has been released and...

     A pair of journalists who covered a protest at a church have been arrested for it by Federal authorities .      This is...problematic....

     RX: "Are you interested in bacon?"  [Holds out plate with a bacon/egg/cheese sandwich on whole wheat, with a couple of half-s...