Article Archive for April 2014
![The Vine: April 30, 2014](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/vine1-558x373.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
After watching the team Olympic figure-skating competition, I was reminded of a YA book that I read in the mid-late ’90s.
![Poppy-Fields Movie Couch Of Fame: <em>Diner</em>](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/diner.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
I struggled with which movie to plop onto the Couch Of Fame with an afghan and a sleeve of Thin Mints first. A classic universally acknowledged, like The Godfather? A flawed but appealing baseball flick …
![The Vine: April 25, 2014](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/vine1-558x373.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
About 15 years ago I picked up a book of seven or so short stories in my local bookstore. The stories were written by a young woman — I think this was her first published …
![The Vine: April 18, 2014](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/vine1-558x373.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
I’ve just finished losing a considerable amount of weight, and for the first time in my adult life I want to own a bikini.
![The Vine: April 16, 2014](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/vine1-558x373.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
I have a new roommate who brought a cat with him and she is now the apple of my eye, the stars, the moon, the assumed owner of our apartment.
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One of these days, sandals weather will come back to stay (“…she says, angrily stuffing her fleece-lined boots back on with a predicted low of 35”). Check out all the wedges, t-straps, and sneakery sandals …
![The Vine: April 9, 2014](https://tomatonation.com/wp-content/themes/arthemia-premium/scripts/timthumb.php?src=https://tomatonation.com/media/vine1-558x373.jpg&w=&h=&zc=1&q=100)
I’m trying to find the name of a movie I saw as a kid and Vine readers are usually able to figure out anything. This has stumped my Facebook friends and my Google skills, including …