The Adventures of Roberta X

     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...

     Last Tuesday, Lt. Col. George Hardy died.  He was the last surviving combat pilot from the original Tuskegee airmen .      He was not ...

      Tam is [undisclosed] years old today !       And remember, dear friend, a restaurant can have a senior discount even if they don'...

      Here's the happiest and best of Christmas -- and other holiday -- wishes to you and yours,        As ever, I will gratefully acce...

      Stay okay wherever you go:       Even after you push the button to make the silhouette man walk thataway.

      It's a sad day.  By the end of this week, Broad Ripple's Locally Grown Gardens will be gone .  They've been my go-to sourc...

      Mostly, today I'm thankful things aren't worse.  Because they certainly could be.       I'm not going to give you some ki...

     I went to the big-box building-suppply store today.  First big store I have been in since the coronavirus stuff started.      It was....

     Yesterday, after tough talk from the President to state Governors encouraging harsh response to civil unrest, and after violent inciden...

     Today is the day we remember the fallen military personnel -- the vast majority of them young, the vast majority of them without any re...

     1816 was " The Year Without A Summer ."   Tamara and I have been calling 2020 "The Year Without...."  Without toile...

     While people yell at one another (50% pro, 45% con and 5% who wish they'd just shut up) over the Federal government's response ...

     Gotta say, I'm not looking forward to this.  There's a lot of paperwork and proving of bona fides involved and there will be ev...

     Salvador Dali had it right : our clocks are melting, all the sweet green icing running down. *      Yesterday, a tanker truck carryin...

     Tam and I took a long walk to Good Morning Mama's   It was full and running over, people waiting outside.  So we walked on around t...

      The very best of Season's Greetings to you and yours from me and mine, which I guess would be one and a half cats (I can't cla...

     It's time for their checkup.  I like to think Tam and I have have helped our pets live a better life.  Be kind to some person or an...

     Sefton Delmer was a UK journalist and  a master of radio propaganda in WW II, a man who set up apparently-clandestine German radio sta...

     Yes, it's my birthday.  One of the ones that ends in a zero.  I'm not really good about it.  When did I get so old?      Tama...

     I'm not much of a nursemaid.  So it's a good thing Tam's determinedly self-sufficient.  Yesterday, she managed to feed the ...