The Adventures of Roberta X

      I worked both days this past weekend, and I was coming off ten days with COVID.  I had eggs in the fridge but no breakfast meat, and n...

      Just over one and a third million Americans -- military personnel -- have died in all this country's wars from the American Revolu...

      Read the links or run a websearch and read what it turns up.  Otherwise, be quiet while the grown-ups talk.  A couple of comments, so ...

      The basic facts aren't in dispute: after Ohio's near-total ban on abortions took effect, the family of a ten-year-old rape vic...

      ...And try adding it to the batter to make it rise.  People will fight over anything, but who knew baking powder had prompted many pit...

      Coming back from this thing has been a long, slow trip.  I continue to feel better -- but not better enough.  I wake up not too bad, b...

      An unpublished commenter referred to the incumbent President as "your guy."  Yeah, no.  He's a reasonably competent poli...

      I get dizzy if I move around too much or too quickly.  I'm pretty puny; the basement stairs are an effort that leaves me winded.  ...

      Amazon has generally got the delivery thing all worked out.  The Sears & Roebuck of our age, that funny online bookseller has grow...

      Another night of temperatures well over 100 F, from which I wakened damp around 3:30 this morning and began the hour or two of feeling...

      I spent three years dodging it.  I've had two or three maybes when I felt sick enough that I ran the test and came up okay.  When ...

      After a lousy night with needling pains in every joint, dull aches in every muscle and a high-enough temperature that I probably could...