Patty Unleashed

You should know I am not a crier. That’s mostly because I’m not a cute crier—you know, the kind you see in

Who do you think you are? The question often is asked indignantly, but it also happens to be the name of a

How did you learn to cook? You would think with my big family, the girls would be in the kitchen and the

My doctor told me to stop acting old. During my annual physical, as I went through a list of all the diseases

I learned I was allergic to bees by stepping on one in my backyard when I was a teenager. My sister, Teresa,

Where did you go to high school? Yes, that question—the one that seems bizarre to people who have not grown up in

I’ve been researching my family’s genealogy. It’s been interesting, but I got stuck on my dad’s side. His grandfather, Pat Fitzgerald, immigrated from

There is a State Farm commercial that causes me to pause every time I see it. In it, a man

I recently saw Weiner, the documentray that follows former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner’s run for New York City mayor. It