Here's my mom Jane Kennedy Dunlap (and dad, Ward) on their wedding day, Jan. 18, 1944. Reared in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Mom was the only...

First off, I loved American Fiction's satirical portrayal of the NY publishing scene and its biased attitudes toward Black or minority...

The week of January 29, the Hubster Bill was fighting a cold, or so we thought. We've had a plethora of flu and Covid vaccines so we did...

On October 25, we arrived from the Big Island of Hawaii to our new home in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada, except we’re not yet...

A young New York girl is safe after being kidnapped at a state park. Her story ignited angry memories about a similar attempt to abduct me.

Past lives is the mature love story about two Korean childhood sweethearts who can't get the other out of their hearts and minds,.

Dear President Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom, I'm a middle-road-liberal. In fact I donate to Joe Biden's campaign. But I'd like to...

If you think it is savvy political policy to: Denigrate higher education and bad-mouth climate science by calling it "elitism," Restrict...

Some of my readers already know, while some may not. My publisher A.M. Chai Literary has redesigned the book cover for Out and In: a...

I so dislike the term "pro-life" because most of us are "pro-life," in that we want all lives to be nurtured and respected. But what the...

Why Did I Swear at a Stranger, but More Importantly, Where Can I Stream "MI-5"?

Pat's version of onion soup combines ideas from the recipes of a number of top chefs. There are options to make this less-sodium as well.

One other Oscar-nominated film Bill and I streamed recently was The Triangle of Sadness. I'm not going to delve deeply into this one. It...

Okay, so we sat through Tár, a film about a lesbian classical music conductor who finds herself in hot water for the same abuses that...

Summary: Set in 1923, on a remote island near the west coast of Ireland, The Banshees Of Inisherin follows lifelong buddies Padraic...

A Pat-Oh-Meter Review of "The Fabelmans." Our Tuesday night streaming of the Oscar-nominated film was “The Fablemans,” written, directed,...

A Pat-Oh-Meter Review War is Hell. War is gruesome. War is futile. Politicians are fools. Generals are obsessives. We've seen these...

A Pat-Oh-Meter Review First off, the title should be modified to say, "Everything Everywhere All at Once Over and Over and Way too Long."...

If you have not yet seen "Hamilton," do. You will be amazed and enlightened, especially if you do a bit of prep first. It's a fun show, very

I went to the store to buy a pack of dried black-eyed peas, wondering if they are as much of a New Year's tradition on Hawaii Island as...