Slam! goes the phone, rrrrrump go the wheels of my desk chair, sssswish goes my messenger bag over my shoulders, and I'm halfway across the outer office when I see the baby, and I swear …

Every job, you need a different thing, a different combination. Sometimes, you only need Ro Jin. Sometimes, you need The Nose and Jenny, or The Nose and Jenny and a Driver and a Navigator and …

My husband "T" and I have been married about two years
and are in our early thirties. We've known each other since
we were 19, but were just casual friends, mostly
because T was kind of a wild …

Sars –
I wanted to write to respond to "Bewildered Friend" whose friend
suddenly and unexpectedly lost her mother.I am 24 years old.Six weeks
and six days ago, my father died of a massive heart attack.He was in
perfect …

Madeline went out into the lane in front of the house, turned right, and began to walk down it, off to find Charlie. It was the kind of cold day that didn't feel all that …

Dear Sars,
I'm fairly young, and a few months ago, I scored what I thought was the
perfect job.A lot of responsibility, really interesting, and something I
thought I'd be able to do very well. Getting a job …

Dear Sars,
I have to write a rough-draft short story for my sophomore writing class by November 8th. No length requirements, except that it be longer than three pages double spaced. I'm stumped for ideas, but …

Hi Sars,
My heart really goes out to Ben's Shadow, as I'm sure many, many readers have said.What a beautiful person he must be to have written so touchingly from his pain.
I don't have any words …

I always marked off my childhood summers according to clearly delineated dates. The countdown to getting out of school started at Memorial Day, and then a couple of weeks later, school let out, and we …

On Sunday, March 22nd, I will celebrate my twenty-fifth birthday. Not only does this mean that an entire quarter of a century has passed since I made my bald, underdressed, and typically hostile debut into …