The Adventures of Roberta X

      Dandelions, that is.  I spent a couple of hours today removing them from the wildflower-thick front yard.  The bees can have the wild ...

      Migraine, dizziness and lousy eyesight.  Most of it allergy-triggered, though there are ongoing issues with my left eye since cataract...

      Vladimir Putin has been working himself up to do...something.  V-E day fell on the ninth of May in Moscow, just a minute after midnigh...

      As expected, several commenters have taken me to task -- they tell me those officers in the Capitol being menaced by rioters were heav...

      Okay, let's run it.      Here's the situation: you and your extended family have gathered in one room of your large house for ...

      I had a long-ish post planned, but I'm all burned out on explaining reality slowly and carefully, and then getting inflamed commen...

     A routine failure at work, for which we have backup, managed to turn into a full-fledged disaster of the kind that you just have to rid...

      Just for the blood-and-soil racist nitwits, you can make oblique and supposedly disparaging references to my Cherokee-and/or-African-A...

      That describes all of the comments I have received so far to yesterday's post.       I stayed at home most of 6 January 2021, wit...

      Nearly a year and a half on, I still get comments telling me that the 6 January 2021 assault on the U. S. Capitol and interfering with...

      As near as I can sort out, Congresscritter Marjorie Taylor Greene is irked that some folks are "gaming the system" by using ...

      This morning, I woke up, looked out the window and saw about a half-inch of snow on the ground, with more falling.       I disapprove...