The Adventures of Roberta X

     There was a Monday, and I didn't post anything.  Sunday was a fairly busy day, once I got moving, but action has consequences:  gri...

     The thing about pork is, it's cheap -- and it's good, especially if you can cook it low and slow.  The grocer had Boston Butt, ...

      Last week, I tried a dehydrated "Lazy Food" one dish dinner, a Sicilian ragù with chickpea-flour rotini and vegetable-protei...

     The critique group I chair met this morning, and I continue to enjoy the level of talent the members have, both natural gifts and a wil...

     The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has bumped up fuel unavailability and prices.  Some of it it is easy to understand: ...

     It would have been inconceivable to my parents: a Republican Vice-President, speaking at a conservative group's event and addressin...

      At one time, it was easy to be awash in news: pretty good newspapers, five-minute radio newscasts -- even the screamin' Top 40 sta...

      Let's see -- we approached the weekend with Iran declaring the Strait of Hormuz was closed -- unless you handed them a million dol...

     For years, I carried an iPhone, mostly for work and web-browing, and an Android that was on another carrier that had all my family cont...

     I am not obliged to publish every comment I receive, and I don't.  If you have an argument with something I have linked to, go to t...

      Perhaps the most infuriating thing for me over the last decade is watching my country turn away from expertise and embrace ignorance a...

      When word came yesterday (or was it the day before? Time moves quickly when governments are flirting with genocide) that Vice-Presiden...