I am desperately searching for a collection of scary stories I read in middle school (circa 1993-1995). I remember two stories from the collection very vividly.
1. One story was called "Lockers." It was about a …

So, it's getting toward Halloween-time, and I've had a sudden nostalgic craving for ghost stories. When I was in school, I was hooked on those creepy ghost/scary story books you could snag through the Scholastic …

In case any of the people who helped with advice for our U.S. road trip are interested, here are links to photos of our trip:
Short version (also works for non-Facebook members)
Long version
We had a fab …

My brother and I had a toy when we were younger. It was very high-tech (for the time) and was a plastic, working headset. It came with various cartridge and book sets. The cartridge plugged …

I've tried Google and asked my Facebook friends: one suggested I try Tomato Nation. The work I am trying to find was written in German, and is something between a short essay and a vignette. …

I'm hoping The Nation can help me find a book. When I was in late grade school, which would have been in the early 1980s, I had the reading skills to read fairly advanced chapter …

On my drive to work I often drink coffee and eat cinnamon graham crackers. Sometimes during my lunch hour, I'll go out to the parking lot and sit in my car, reading a book and …

As fall and winter approach, I need some wardrobe-building help.
I work in Manhattan in an industry that's not quite suits-and-heels, but isn't cazh, either. I have lots of appropriate separates to wear, but I …

Long, long ago I read a short story that involved a writer who loved to write but was constantly rejected for publication. Somehow, he ends up with a box that is an "adjective magnet" — …

Dear Sars,
Would the Tomato Nation brain trust please help me pick out some skivvies?
Lately the only things in my top drawer that don't give me an immediate (and enduring) wedgie are the 3 pairs …