The Adventures of Roberta X

      Last night, I wanted something warming and easy for dinner, and resolved to see what was in the hot deli case at our neighborhood groc...

      It appears that Neanderthals and early modern humans cooked up similar meals, back when chipped flint was high technology --- and it w...

      So, Red China's being rocked by protests over their draconian "Zero Covid" policy.  Vaccination rates haven't been g...

      Pretty much all I did was laundry and a little writing.  Working a long Friday around people tired me out.

      The day after Thanksgiving isn't an official day off for me, and it never has been.  A few times, it's been an unofficial day ...

      I'm thankful for a lot, but most of all, I'm thankful things haven't been any worse.       I'm thankful Russia hasn...

      I'll work on something longer and more suited to the day later.  For now, I'm thankful to have gotten past 20,100 words on my ...

      There have been a couple of headline-grabbing mass shootings over the last few days.  These are always tragic, dominate the news cycle...

      A little over 18,500 words as of last night.  I won't reach 50 k by the end of the month, but I'm making progress. 

     Calendars frustrate me these days.  Not the ones on my phone or computer, the paper ones.  The modern trend is for teeny-weeny numbers,...

     More later, I hope.

      The headline went splashing though social media last week: World Health Organization Says Bacon As Deadly As Plutonium .       It sou...