I just spent an hour playing cards on our new backyard deck with Mr. S and Gen. All quiet on the Brooklyn front, except for one romantically desperate cricket who didn't get the memo. "Um: …

I went to Pride today. I went by mistake, and not really willingly, because I suffered some sort of nuclear brain fart while planning my afternoon and thought coming into the city on the west …

Dear Sarah and Tomato Nation,
It's Green here, saying a big thank-you to all of you for your fantastic suggestions and very kind invitations for our U.S. road (and air) trip. I had the most amazing …

A while back I asked for curly-hair-friendly products that wouldn't affect my asthma or my sensitive skin. And something has happened recently that makes me want to warn all my TN peeps about self-diagnosis. …

Dear Sarah,
I will be spending a month in the States shortly, flying into New York on the third of October and out of San Francisco third November. Those flights are pretty much my only parameters. …

Dear Sars,
I am writing because I find myself increasingly…angry. I live in London and have done so for almost ten years. Because of my family situation, I won't be leaving the city any time soon.
I …

A quick administrative note: I won't pick prize-winners until all the anniversary Vines have gone up; that'll give everyone a decent enough crack at answering. On to today's questions!
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Hi Sars,
I have one for you and …

(Confused? No problem: I'm having a contest, to raise money for underfunded public schools. Read all about it here.)
It's a gamble.
I want us to raise $150,000 this year — $210,000, if we can manage it. …

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night and known, without moving the curtain to look outside, that it had started snowing?Maybe you'd had a bad or strange dream, or your child …

My appearance on BBC Radio 4's "Americana," from Sunday, talking about trying to find Don. The podcast is available via free download on iTunes; I come in at minute 22-ish.
OFD is also a Facebook group …