The Adventures of Roberta X

     Tamara's been fighting some sort of thing -- respiratory infection, most likely -- since suffering a torn intercostal quite some ti...

      Dinner last night: Picadillo , or as close as I get to the real thing, anyway. T AMARA K EEL PHOTO       The basic setup is a ...

     Yesterday morning, I was chatting at Tam and mentioned my admiration for Robert E. Howard, the Texan writer who created Conan the Barba...

     I have nothing for you.  I'm old (as old as I've even been) and I am feeling pretty down.

     Seriously lousy.  This whole "interacting with people" thing is reaching at least a middle for me.

     On social media, links to a New York Times article about the process to legally buy a gun in fifteen different countries are being pos...

     You know, there probably wasn't a " Children's Crusade " as the term is commonly understood; even the best accounts a...

     This much snow:      Yes, that's seven inches of the stuff.

     I slept as soundly as ever -- which is to say, not hardly -- and every time I woke up to commune with nature, ease a crick in my neck, ...

     The Spring Winter Storm approaches inexorably, and I still haven't laid in full French Toast supplies.      Worse yet, I'd m...

     Thought we'd made it, did you?  Ha!  Figured the big bad storms had sated themselves on the East Coast, did you?  You've watche...

     In the abstract, it's pretty -- fluffy white snow on the ground, big, fat, white flakes drifting and spiraling down to join them......