The Adventures of Roberta X

     I made a variation of  "breakfast hash" this morning with a little bacon, a diced potato, a nearly equal volume of diced whit...

      No post yesterday.  I chaired the fiction writer's critique group, and that really takes it out of me.  Not because they're a ...

     By the time the remnants of tropical storm Helene get to Indiana - and we're getting the fringes already -- it will be high winds a...

     A socially-conservative religious movement that started small and gained influence over a modern country, using war and instability to ...

     Netflix released a series in August that I happened on last night.  Kaos retells Greco-Roman myth, apparently (and very loosely) the s...

      Shakespeare told us all the world's a stage.  I think it's more like a traveling carnival, and politics is definitely the side...

     Radio news this morning had a short piece on politics in the workplace -- how most people avoid it (good!) and how some people reported...

     You know those old-fashioned drip oilers?  A cylinder of glass, clamped between two brass saucers, a needle-valve at the top and a thre...

     And yet I didn't do much.  Dishes, laundry, minor cleaning; cleaned out the grill and cooked dinner on it -- a grill pan with Bosto...

     The thing about having been born at the tail end of the post WW II Baby Boom is that you keep showing up after the main bulk of Boomers...

     What if one observer determined the position of a particle while another observer measures its speed, and then they compare notes -- wo...

     Storage-solutions company Tupperware has filed for bankruptcy.  A group of creditors have proposed a novel approach to resolution, in w...