The Adventures of Roberta X

      I hate living in interesting times.  Bring back the dullness my parents enjoyed!  Occasionally for whole months at a time!       Dammi...

       I have been working on what I refer to as a "bathtub MFA."  I have some back problems and spend a half-hour or more soaking...

      Is it too much to ask for a thread of internal logic?  For just a scrap of sense instead of overwrought emotion?  Having a search warr...

      Saturday: we enjoy the morning cartoons on Me-TV, I do laundry, there's some kind of a cooking project (pork roast with vegetables...

      Just sick enough all day that all I accomplished was office work.  At home.  Something I ate wasn't happy.  I blame oatmeal cookie...

      Have you noticed how much political talk involves resentment at someone else's good fortune?  From communism's class warfare t...

      A sure sign of age: I went to the doctor and passed my blood pressure test by a lot -- and it makes me happy.  (Always relax and think...

      The never-ending din of plain wretched news -- war in Europe, dysfunctional U. S. politics, ongoing bad weather (can't call it cli...

      Other than cooking, cleaning, changing the sheets, doing laundry and fretting over my aching lower back, I took the day off.  I ignore...

      Yesterday afternoon, after doing what work I could from home and preparing to leave, I found myself ill with the sort of gastrointesti...

      That's how it works for the military; they swear to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies first and then to ...

      You can keep leaving crazysauce comments intimating partisan political violence all you like, Mike, but they're not going to be pu...