Dear Sars:
I read someplace that it is a sign of mental illness if you know the right thing to do and cannot bring yourself to do it. That sounds to me like most of the …

Dear Sars,
I moved to Portland, OR from NY, NY a year and a half ago. I met a lot of new people, formed a lot of new friendships, and dated several guys that were either …

Driving home from Toronto the other night, I ran into snow right around Syracuse, a turn of meteorological events which I actually welcomed, suffering as I do from a disorder known to the layperson as …

Hey Sars,
Okay, my problem is: I need to get laid. I know this
isn’t a big problem (or an uncommon one), but it’s
been causing me some grief lately.
There’s this guy, you see. I’m not in love …

Hi Sars,
My problem is this: Most of my “friends” don’t like my boyfriend. They feel
that he, “C,” isn’t good enough for me.I went to college and now work for a
telecom company; C went to tech …

Hi,
I have been working with this man side-by-side for a few months now.He
started flirting with me, and I thought, well, he’s attractive and that sure
makes me feel nice.We are good friends at work and have …

It’s year-in-review time in the publishing world, the hallowed season during which print journalists forgo researching and developing actual features in favor of throwing together lists of The Stories That Touched Our Hearts, thereby freeing …

Sars,
Wondering about the proper usage for the word “revert.” I’ve been getting
more and more emails with “revert” used (as I see it) in an incorrect manner.
An example from an email I received was, “You need …

We used to have a pretty close relationship, snow and I. Snow used to hook me up with days off school, and in return I’d defend snow to my mom, who feared everything about snow …

Dear Sars,
Hi.Longtime reader, first-time writer.So, I’ve stepped in a bit of poo.I’ve recently started dating this guy and really do like him.Which is rare.But (of course there is a “but”), the situation is clouded with …