The Adventures of Roberta X

     This is a pre-scheduled post, because I have to take my car to a specialist garage early this morning.      I was up late last night,...

     Our native and imported Indiana writers are a mixed lot but many are markedly cynical.  Few have had as sharp a tongue as (Indiana-rais...

     I got home about 7:30 last night, so sleepy that I didn't notice the backyard privacy fence was broken!  Tam asked me if I had noti...

     Last night was the third one and it's impressive how much progress my fellow students have made.  (Me, I'm still struggling to ...

     Really.  Stop it.  You don't call Germany " Deutschland," do you?  Then stop trying to pronounce the names of places and ...

     Worked on reviews for my class all day today and I still have some writing of my own to do tonight.  From bed, I think.  I'm sleepy...

     Sat down at the computer with the clear intent to write and post something interesting.  Never did.  So much for that.      A sudden-...

     The writing class is keeping me busy.  The group of writers is congenial -- I think we all showed up on Day One determined to be -- and...

     The TV is playing in my room down the hall, tag-team coverage of the overnight snow and/or ice followed by sleet and/or rain.  Things c...

     The Future Is History .  That's the title of Masha Gessen's account of the years immediately before perestroika through the ris...

     Politicians.  As a group, they're obnoxious, attention-craving, fickle and deceitful. They involve themselves in the most amazing g...

     I haven't written much about the latest developments.  I think it has become one of those "team" things: if you're on...