The Adventures of Roberta X

      Picadillo is a south-of-the-border dish with Mexican and Cuban variations and who knows what others (I'd like to find out.)  I mad...

      With the growing popularity of "they" as a singular pronoun, many of us older people have a little trouble getting comfortab...

      I'm sure you'd all love to know my deep, meaningful insights on the Chris Rock/Will Smith thing.       Nope.

      Yesterday, I drove over to look after my hospitalized friend's three black cats.  She has more (and more colorful), but the most s...

      Progress has been made: I have replaced untidy heaps of papers with a much neater stack of boxes.       It's something.

      I haven't posted anything today because I have been busy,  It's the most wheel-spinning task I know, a problem I make for myse...

      Yesterday, I spent much of the day with a digestive upset.  It was the kind of thing that will take one's attention right off worl...

      The modern confirmation process for Supreme Court Justices ensures that every successful nominee will have two attributes: phenomenal ...

      In a recent speech, Dmitry Medvedev, one of the Kremlin's high-up muckety-mucks, warned the West that Russia's existence was  ...

      It was the same doctor I'd seen before; he isn't retiring until June.  He has the easy manner of a man who has seen -- and fix...

      It doesn't exist.  The President of the United States -- any President -- has no direct control over gasoline and oil prices.  Oh,...

      In the heyday of network radio, NBC's Master Control setup was a technical marvel -- but it looked nothing at all like most Master...