The Adventures of Roberta X

     I have spent the day on laundry, a silly craft project, and sorting a considerable accumulation of junk mail.  I have not been outside ...

     Huck and I may not be getting along.  It's chance and bad luck, but somehow, the night before last, he ended up scratching my face,...

     Last night was the second night of the first Democrat Presidential candidate's debate.  I'm still sorry it isn't being done...

     The ol' two-fisted, double-sided headache/earache has returned, at times so bad I have trouble forming words when speaking.  It...

     An envelope from the local Hyundai dealer showed up the other day, personally addressed to me rather than "occupant," as is s...

     It's difficult to imagine, but we might not get any rain at all today -- just a nice, sunny day with a high in the low eighties. ...

     This post was supposed to be about the nicest bunch of fictional vampires I have encountered -- though some of them are very bad indeed...

     It's a simple stew.  I came up with the recipe walking around the store, thinking about what might be good and adding it to the car...

     So, it turns out a grilled Swiss cheese/pastrami/fried egg on rye bread is totally a thing you can do. I was seriously low on conventio...

     In which I tell tales that are only a little bit fictionalized:      It finally happened.  After years of budget-deferred maintenance...

     It's interesting that I'm reluctant to write about the book I'm currently reading, Max Boot's The Corrosion Of Conserva...

     Found myself working at the North Campus yesterday, alone, when a migraine hit.  Bad one, the kind where the room spins and working on ...