The Adventures of Roberta X

     Last weekend, I made a vindaloo-ish pork roast ("boneless Boston butt," supply your own punch line), marinated overnight in a...

     Yesterday, I removed around five Gigabytes of junk from my computer, most of it left from the recent Windows update, the one that tried...

     I don't quite get it, but after yesterday's post titled "I Don't Care," somehow the promised thunderstorms never ...

     You can call it climate or you can call it weather.  Either way, it's too darned hot.  95°F* or more yesterday and the day before, ...

     Or even about Constitutionality (with apologies to the songwriters ).  While most people would agree that the First Amendment protects ...

     An interesting essay -- it's a chapter from a book -- on the basic elements of morality, shared across our cultures.  The piece pre...

     Summer must be starting to wind down, because I have made refrigerator pickles!      I'd bought a couple of cucumbers to slice and...

     Yesterday was online writing-critique group day.  Chairing it is an effort for me.  Oh, the members of the group are nice and as well-b...

     Coming up on the end of my vacation and I'm trying to get some more of the stuff done that I was planning to do.  Oh, I have done q...

     Microsoft snuck "Copilot" onto my computer when I wasn't looking.  They didn't even ask first.  Since the machine is ...

     I'm off this week, and I have spent several hours over the last three days working on an addition to my book shelves -- one day of ...

     See history in the making?  You'd probably have more fun touring a sausage factory.  At least they have to hose the place out regul...