The Adventures of Roberta X

     Voting, not so much.  Too many people.  I was never very good around people -- shyness, I liked to claim.  I'm the retiring type, h...

     The paint has come off the window frames around the living room windows, especially the sills.  Those windows are original to the house...

     The last week or so before an election is always pretty wild, but the candidates and politicians campaigning for them are crazier than ...

    Walter Koenig passed away earlier this week.  We're down to Kirk and Sulu from original Star Trek cast.  Koenig was an interesting ...

      It came to me as email spam from The New York Times -- second only to the NRA for desperate pen pal behavior -- and I decided to give...

      Oldies TV network Me-TV has been running The Wizard of Oz film most of this month, along with various (old) behind-the-scenes shows a...

      So, week before last, I dropped the motor unit of my "Amazon Basics" rechargeable, HEPA-rated stick vacuum by not realizing ...

     You should walk a mile in my ears.  Men (especially) say things to women that they think of as well-intentioned -- but which communicat...

     I have spent the entire work day -- 9:30 in the morning through 8:00 at night -- working with a very sharp factory support engineer to ...

      I find it difficult to write these days, mostly due to politics and business.      One one level, a lot of the GOP seems be adopting ...

      This morning, a sign of the changing seasons: it was 61°F inside Roseholme Cottage and I ran the furnace for the first time this Fall....

      It's a cold, wet morning in Indianapolis, and checking on Indiana fuel prices has led to a chilling discovery: while the state has...