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...

I've been trying to sell my vacuum on Facebook Marketplace for about a year. It's a relatively new vacuum, high-end Sears canister model...

May Donald Trump's announcement to run for the White House be as much of a failure as Ford's launch of the Edsel.

I took great pleasure in deactivating my Twitter account on November 3, 2022. I'm not a celebrity, so my 1,100 followers may not even...

A real estate agent in Lakeway, Texas, jumped on several of my Facebook posts, even though I don’t even know her and we are not...

Living on Hawaii Island can turn from delightfully perfect to maddeningly frustrating when you want to buy something you really want,...

Be careful on Facebook Marketplace. I've sold lots of stuff on that site, and most of the time the experience was a good one. But I just...

When I was a young girl, my mother woke my sister and me in Dallas to watch Elizabeth's coronation on our 21-inch, black-and-white TV. It...

I did not make Ukrainian borsch as a noble gesture to support Ukrainians against their evil invaders. But while making the soup, I did...

My husband Bill is a retired physician and USAF "Bird" Colonel. With 43 years of medical and military mojo, he was chomping at the bit to...

My long-ago high school in Dallas, South Oak Cliff (known as SOC), finally won a state championship today (Dec. 18, 2021) in the Texas...