The Adventures of Roberta X

      After a day of steady improvement and greatly reduced pain, I woke up this morning with my back once again aching.  I'm trying to ...

      Over the weekend, possibly moving the small picnic table (and wasn't I proud of know how to shift and roll it to get it through a ...

      One of the main reasons I am an old-school libertarian and not a Republican (especially the post-2016 version of the GOP), explained a...

      From 28 February 2020 , my worst prediction ever:       "[The] pandemic disease sweeping this country [...] will [...] bring Ame...

      Recently, restaurants in our neighborhood (and across the city) have been scaling back the outdoor-dining areas they added during the ...

      A recent (and so far unpublished) comment took me to task for not giving equal weight of disapproval to sanctuary cities versus govern...

      You can almost predict if a person will be cheering or fuming about Donald Trump's latest round of legal difficulties based on the...

      People appear to be incapable of applying logical thought to political choices.  It's all emotion and blind partisan loyalties, an...

      I'm not sure I was ever a child.  More and more, it just seems like a rumor, or something I made up to account for having been a l...

      The funeral of Elizabeth II, late Queen of the United Kingdom, is going on as I write this.  It's the kind of solemn spectacle the...

      I'm not doing much.

      Made a little progress on some projects, grilled a nice steak dinner thanks to Tam's generosity (I'm just about out of the $$t...