The Adventures of Roberta X

     Last night, I made a kind of soup or ragout with ground turkey, mushroom, onion, carrot, celery and mushroom-chicken broth.  It was qui...

      Things didn't end well for Cassandra, but they were bad long before they got worse: the thing about prophecies of doom is, even if...

      They've had skirt steaks at the grocer's for some time at a price that is only a little unreasonable and today, I decided to g...

     They're not cheap, and they have a somewhat limited season, but "Sumo" Mandarin oranges are delightful, for all the name...

      Not to be too vague about it, but the online official swag store of a certain auto-racing sanctioning group briefly offered a T-shirt ...

     My family, what's left of it, sometimes shares nostalgic text messages about our happy childhood, and that's fine; we're al...

      Advertising! That was the biggest winner in Indiana's primary elections yesterday.  There was a big uptick in ad money, largely sp...

     Today's election results should be interesting.  The outcomes for the Indiana Republicans being primaried at the behest of the Repu...

     A good start for a Monday: I have located our polling place (a little Lutheran church that has hosted voting several times in recent ye...

     The new desktop arrived late this afternoon, and after a break for dinner, I'm setting it up.  I've got some applications to do...

      It's more frustrating than I would have thought.  My replacement desktop computer has been delayed by a day, and I'm not good ...

     I'm stuck with the original-issue Mark I head -- which is a pity, since I have a migraine of remarkably dizzying intensity.  I have...