Dear Sars,
It looks like I am going to be driving a moving van across the country this summer…with my cat. I have a vague recollection that you’ve done this before, maybe when you drove to …

I’ll tell you exactly what did it.
I’d bought Bean tickets to a Mets game for her birthday, and she kindly invited me to go with her. We arranged to meet up at our seats, and …

Dear Sarah,
After wearing a seat belt, my shirt gets two rub marks in the middle of my chest where it got pushed against the tips of my underwires. Not pretty.
I usually wear 100% cotton t-shirts …

Sorry for the late post today, friends. I’m at Aunt Camp, where internet is spotty, and spent a productive morning scything grass; mulching heather; avoiding a giant, needy bumblebee that seems to believe it’s not …

I have a couple of questions about coffee — about the word “coffee,” the ways we use it, not about the beverage itself.
The first one: “coffee black.” I don’t order my coffee in the same …

Hi Sars,
Can you help me find this book that’s been driving me crazy? I probably read this book in the late eighties or mid nineties, and I think it was relatively new, as I owned …

Silkwood has so many unexpected charms: that Karen Silkwood is not a saint, but a basically decent and courageous woman, and a feckless and sometimes bratty woman; Drew leaving, then coming back to tell her, …

The Cups ranneth over Twix with 70% of the vote.
Stay tuned for the classic cocktails bracket (a.k.a. “The NC Make It A Double”), under construction as we speak — and the non-chocolate-candy version after that!

You don’t need an Amex to vote, and it could mean 200K for Donors Choose. DC founder Charles Best breaks it down:
As you can see, we are literally neck-and-neck for 1st place.   (Go to …

Dear Sars,
When I was younger, my mom and I had a number of cats and two dogs. The last of the dogs passed away right around the time that my mom was changing her career …