The Adventures of Roberta X

      Born 12 May, 1946, SF writer and Libertarian activist L. Neil Smith passed away 27 August 2021.  His entertaining books were not only ...

      Sunday morning, I made Eggs Pomodoro.  Our tomato plants have started to ripen, and I had a nice, fresh tomato, a big one, one of the ...

      It keeps happening to her even after professional bat abatement: our neighbor, the same woman who is fostering the kittens, texted me ...

      A quick look around the Internet today finds that all of the politically-fixated regular citizens are every bit as whipped up and fren...

      People do it all the time.  It's a waste of effort, mental wheel-spinning.  I first noticed it during the Reagan Administration: s...

     Yesterday morning, about halfway through a series of thunderstorms with heavy rain, Tamara Keel and I rescued four soaking-wet, shiveri...

      Imagine you were a Ph.D. head-candler and college professor.  Now imagine you were interested in a particular corner of your disciplin...

      Okay, we have lived with this damn virus for over a year and a half now, from the first whisper to the current surge of the Delta vari...

     Usually, it works.       Sometimes it doesn't       Nice 98-cent refund, at least.

      I waited almost a week before checking.  As of Saturday afternoon, the kittens were still in the nest.  Their eyes were barely open an...

      Friday night I worked late and drove home as the moon was rising.  It's nearly full and it was beautiful low on the horizon, a sma...

      It is more and more difficult to find anything to write about  that hasn't already been beat to death.  Those dead horses aren...