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The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

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The Vine: January 9, 2013
January 9, 2013 – 1:16 PM | 23 Comments
The Vine: January 9, 2013

Guy and I are graduate students in the same program and have all the same friends. We’d been dating on-and-off for about a year and broke things off last week. If I’m honest, it was …

The Vine: January 4, 2013
January 4, 2013 – 9:16 AM | 21 Comments
The Vine: January 4, 2013

I’m hoping you can help with a song that’s been stuck in my head ever since the late ’80s or early ’90s.  It’s a silly little pop song sung by a female artist, it went …

The Vine: January 1, 2013
January 1, 2013 – 1:43 PM | 94 Comments
The Vine: January 1, 2013

Dear Nation,
Happy New Year! And welcome to your resolutions open thread: share/gut-check your resolutions; get/give support for everything from new workouts to budgeting to cookie recipes; second-guess your break-ups with Diet Coke and post-10-PM chocolate.
I’ll …

The Vine: December 28, 2012
December 28, 2012 – 8:06 AM | 17 Comments
The Vine: December 28, 2012

I could use some help on this, please. It’s a short children’s story (I think I found it in an English/Literature textbook when in 7th grade) about this fairy/elf-type being whose job it is to …

The Vine: December 26, 2012
December 26, 2012 – 10:59 AM | 27 Comments
The Vine: December 26, 2012

I have a bit of an apartment problem. Our upstairs neighbors are stompy walkers. I seriously don’t understand how normal human beings can make this much noise when they walk. It’s not a normal “all …

The Vine: December 21, 2012
December 21, 2012 – 9:03 AM | 34 Comments
The Vine: December 21, 2012

 
Since we’re all still here, let’s track down some books, eh what?
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I’ve searched for this book on Google and came up with nothing. I read this book in middle school (late ’90s). It’s about a …

The Vine: December 19, 2012
December 19, 2012 – 11:20 AM | 34 Comments
The Vine: December 19, 2012

I’m a happily married mother of two young children; my husband and I are both in our mid-thirties. We don’t really disagree about much and we have a pretty great life. But even though we …

The Vine: December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012 – 11:32 AM | 46 Comments
The Vine: December 14, 2012

Here’s two for the readers. The first was a book on tape that I listened to but never finished, probably sometime around 1998, although the book itself definitely predated that — I want to say it …

The Vine: December 12, 2012
December 12, 2012 – 3:56 PM | 28 Comments
The Vine: December 12, 2012

I’ve got a “please help me find this song” request to put out there.  My hard-to-buy-for boyfriend has heard a song in the yoga class we’ve been taking, and I’d like to get him a  copy …

The Vine: December 7, 2012
December 7, 2012 – 11:47 AM | 72 Comments
The Vine: December 7, 2012

My family always had advent calendars growing up, and I am looking for suggestions for good advent calendars to purchase now. I am open to reusable or non-reusable ones.
There is also one particular advent calendar …