Dear Sars —I find your advice amusing, insightful, and blunt, and I could use a dose of
all three. It all started with a boy, of course.A while back, I realized I
Had Feelings For a longtime …

Dear Sars,
I am getting married in three months, and having a bit of trouble with my maid of honor. I’ll call her “Cindy.” Basically, she has said a couple of times that I’m being a …

Dear Sars,
After deeming various personal problems just too embarrassing even to share
anonymously with a top-notch advice giver such as yourself, I’m finally
writing to you with a cat question.
My cat is a former stray who showed …

Hi Sars —
Could you pass this on to Rodent? I work in animal rescue, and our
organization is affiliated with the Baraboo Guinea Pig Rescue. She has a
list of links to medical information and is easily …

Dear Sars:
About a year ago, I began experiencing several episodes of what I’ll call existential depression (that’s my fancy term for it, anyway). Bypassing the rather uninteresting details of these episodes, the upshot is that …

Dear Sars,
Here’s kind of a twist on the classic love triangle story…
A year ago, I’ve met a wonderful man. He’s bitingly clever, possibly the funniest person I’ve ever met, and he entertains me greatly. We …

Oh, oh, I know this one! I do! Impulsiveness-Impaired said:
“But you want to go to the beach and hang out? Ummm, sorry, can’t. I’ve got
readings and papers to catch up on, say I.”
Several paragraphs later, …

Dear Sars,
I had two cats. Callie, 11, Anya 1. Sweeties, but they never really
caught onto the getting-along thing. They had their areas and stayed
out of reach, and after a few months, I had no cat …

Hi Sars,
I have a dilemma involving an ex and a trip to Japan. I’ll start with
some background.
Let’s not give the ex an alias, because “he” works just fine. He and
I met over four years ago …

Dear Sars,
I have a fairly new problem, and I’m desperately seeking all the
advice I can for it.
About six months ago, after a few months of medium/large problems piling up, I
thought I was going to die …