“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Sars,
I am a big fan of your site, and I am hoping that you can set me
straight on if my sister-in-law is loony, or if I am just rude.
The background is that my husband and …
Hi Sars,
I hope you can help me out with this strange, stupid problem. I graduated high school with my best friends this past May. It was a pretty big deal for all of us to …
Hey Sars,
I have an ongoing dilemma for which I would like your advice and the advice
of your readers. I’m just overcoming life-long, slumping, cringing,
hair-in-the-face, shyness. When I’m around strangers, I tense up and feel
awkward. It’s …
Dear Sarah,
I have a work-related dilemma, and I respect your advice very much;
I’m hoping you can help me out.
I work for a small startup firm; among the 20 or so of us, I am one …
I can answer “Why was I cursed to care about this?”‘s question. I was just checking on that point for a coworker the other day (I kept deleting her second space, and she kept adding …
Dear Sars,
I’ve been working happily away at a non-profit arts organization for many years now, and my boss just announced that she plans to leave the company, a not-so-big surprise. In addition to being a …
I have an odd problem. It’s related to armpits. I believe you are a, erm,
dewy person, but I don’t know if these things overlap. I get itchy, irrited
armpits whenever I shave. I suppose it’s razor …
Dear Sars,
I’m a 22-year-old guy who’s fallen in love with a woman 15 years my senior. That is all fine and dandy, but my problem is that she is a born-again Christian and…I’m not. As …
Sars,
It sucks that my first question is about boys instead of shoes. I’d prefer
to talk about kitten heels, but whatever.
So. I found The Boy. Yeah, I know, but it’s true. I didn’t think there
was a …
At that time, everything went on foot, not just the mail: fruit, shoes, a mattress, anything you needed got hucked to you on someone’s back or in a wagon. Dangerous work, a carrier job, with …