Welcome to Squared Up, a new featurette in which I address various baseball questions and debates of the week. I don’t know yet how often I’ll do it or what day it will usually run, …

I’ve been trying to remember the name of a movie I rented back in the day and it is making me crazy. I’ve tried all the usual searching tactics with no luck. So, since TN …

THE THREAD COMETH! THURSDAY! BE THERE!
Also! Live chat with Ms. Ribon herself   Wednesday 30 June. Stay tuned.
The readers have spoken! Our first TN Read-Along book is Going In Circles, by Pamela Ribon. All y’all …

Interested in a TN read-along? Vote for a book or two now!
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When my husband and I take a cab with a single friend of ours who happens to live nearby, do we pay 50 percent …

A few readers mentioned here that they’d like to do a TN read-along. I love the idea, in theory.
In practice, we might have a couple of issues, the first of which is book selection. I …

In the Griffey comments thread, reader Suzanne asked what I thought of Jim Joyce’s perfect-game-ruining call against Armando Galarraga and the Tigers the other night.
I feel for everyone involved. It’s a shame Galarraga lost the …

I read both of these stories while in middle school, so early ’80s. Both of them were stories included in our class-issued Language Arts books.
First was about a group of kids…I think it was …

It’s not that Matthew Pouliot didn’t let the body cool before deeming Ken Griffey, Jr. “overrated.” It’s not even that the word “overrated” is the very first word in the headline — that that adjective, …

Hi, Sars!
I have a combo cat/relationship question, and would really like your advice…
For very innocent and necessary reasons, I recently had to perform a little Google search on my ex (I thought I was going …

Hi Sars!
I have a mystery book and I haven’t been able to Google it. The main character is a teen girl — her mother is remarried, and her new stepfather has a son from a …