The Adventures of Roberta X

      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...

     This morning, I had a treat: a toasted ham, cheese and egg sandwich on rye bread.  It's every bit as bad for you as you might think...

     Look at almost any newsfeed; sure, Fox News and the sites to the right of them are whistling in the dark more loudly than ever, but fro...

     Tamara's line for times like these is "Events leading up to...," that part at the beginning of a history book (or maybe a...

     I want to get back to a country where it's (mostly) safe to (largely) ignore politics.  The problem is, of course, that politics is...

     The Trump administration's DOJ -- far more a creature of Presidential whim than ever before -- is investigating the member news or...

     The most recent barbarism from the Trump administration is the planned public execution of the man who committed the 2009 Fort Hood mas...

     ...Maybe they just went up .  Consider the source, but the source's source is a well-respected Denver TV news station.      The wo...

      With the mid-term elections about a month away, I'm going to make some guesses:      One in ten to one in twenty chance of politi...

      So the radio ad offered "Free gutter examination," and I thought it would be nice to have a professional look at 'em.  I...