The Adventures of Roberta X

     So....now it's 41 degrees and climbing, and we've got fog so thick that when I heard a loud snorting and groaning and felt the ...

     It's much warmer today.  In the upper twenties to low thirties, in fact.  What an improvement!  --Except for the freezing drizzle, ...

     Nine degrees above zero, mind you; I wouldn't want people to think I was exaggerating.   The thermometer sits at nineteen, which is...

     It's yet another incident where you'll see what you brought to it -- some people I know were horrified that the U.S. used tear ...

     The TV news just reported part of the ring-freeway around town is closed due to a bus fire.  And it's snowing.      Definitely Mo...

     I admit it -- I've been goofing off most of the last four days.  I really should have done more.  But I did make some headway on th...

     Fry 'em!      Pretty good with bacon and eggs.  Mashed potato patties with a little seasoned flour on them, fried in a mixture o...

     I slept late, rushed the leaf bags out to the curb in my housecoat when I heard the truck come grunting down the road, checked the mail...

     Every Thanksgiving, I cook a small Turducken. Even a small one is good-sized -- four and a half pounds of turkey, duck, chicken, st...

     Thanksgiving morning.  First one without my Mom.  Planning to concentrate on cooking and crafts.      Perhaps an essay later.

     Homecoming is a TV series on Amazon Prime Video,  based on a podcast of the same name, written by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg (wh...

     Don't do it girls.  Just don't.  Avoid geekery and find something else to do.  It's too frustrating, climbing over walls th...