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The Vine: June 11, 2010
June 11, 2010 – 8:40 AM | 28 Comments
The Vine: June 11, 2010

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 Vine: June 9, 2010
June 9, 2010 – 12:55 PM | 41 Comments
The Vine: June 9, 2010

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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 …

The Vine: June 4, 2010
June 4, 2010 – 8:33 AM | 25 Comments
The Vine: June 4, 2010

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 …

The Vine: June 2, 2010
June 2, 2010 – 1:27 PM | 23 Comments
The Vine: June 2, 2010

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 …

The Vine: May 28, 2010
May 28, 2010 – 8:40 AM | 22 Comments
The Vine: May 28, 2010

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 …

The Vine: May 26, 2010
May 26, 2010 – 11:24 AM | 83 Comments
The Vine: May 26, 2010

Dear Sars,
I was out for dinner with my SO and wanted to fill him in on the finale of a reality TV show. I’d started to do that when the woman at the next table …

The Vine: May 21, 2010
May 21, 2010 – 10:43 AM | 29 Comments
The Vine: May 21, 2010

Hey gang!
This is about a story I read in a political-science class in college. I am usually strong with the Googling, but my yearly searches have turned up nada.
The basic premise was that a …

The Vine: May 19, 2010
May 19, 2010 – 11:09 AM | 67 Comments
The Vine: May 19, 2010

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 …

The Vine: May 14, 2010
May 14, 2010 – 11:05 AM | 39 Comments
The Vine: May 14, 2010

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 …

The Vine: May 12, 2010
May 12, 2010 – 4:31 PM | 40 Comments
The Vine: May 12, 2010

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 …