“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Dear Sarah,I’ve written to you before about my friend, the one who had been using both myself and the other member of our trio to take up time before her boyfriend was available.
Well, it’s been …
Hi Sarah,My roommate moved in with me in February. Prior to her moving in, I lived in my two-bedroom apartment by myself. I am the only person on the lease, which expires this month. I …
Hey Sarah,
Okay, so here’s the thing, I was very good friends with this boy, Ben. We talked about everything. We used to spend hours on the phone telling each other our deepest, darkest secrets. I …
I have a dorky ex-husband and a distant self-obsessed husband of twenty years. (Just to show what a bad partner selector I am.) It’s been twenty years because the first divorce devastated my kids. They …
I have been friends with this guy since our first year of university. Just plain, ordinary, “Hey, how’s it goin’?” friends. Three years later, we ended up living less than a minute from each other, …
My best friend has been married to a verbally and emotionally abusive man (Bob) for two years. They have a two-year-old son, whom I adore. I have tried in the past to stay out of …
Dear Sarah,
I wouldn’t have written, except that I read your advice to that guy Dr. Strangelove. I wouldn’t presume to tell you your business, so I’m not, but I thought I might let you in …
Miss Bunting,
I have a problem with eating . . . I suppose you’d call me anorexic, although I don’t like to put it like that because it’s kind of embarrassing and weird. But recently it’s …
Here is a little problem for you. My mother didn’t have much to do with raising me after the sixth grade, due to her wanting to having a second childhood and moving out on my …
I bitch about clichés for a living: movie clichés, television clichés, clichés about the supposed differences between men and women. Still, clichés enter the language – and stick around long after we’ve tired of hearing …