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Let me just say right up front that I don’t have a problem with celebrity journalism per se. I don’t disapprove of gossip, God knows, or think that it’s any particular shame that movie stars …
Here’s the deal. I was kind of dating this guy for
about eight months, then he got back with his
ex-girlfriend. I’m having his child, but he doesn’t
want anything to do with it (he already has two …
Dear Sarah,
I have a problem with a co-worker. Or to be more precise, she has a
problem
with me.
We are both members of a small, close-knit department.
Although she
is senior to me in age and status in the …
So, I decided to move the week before Christmas, which, who in this fine old world has better timing than I? Nobody. No. Body. Well, maybe my own sinuses, which — coated in a shag …
A question for the Grammar Goddess:
I work in chemistry lab, and we have a softball team called “The Degenerate HOMOs.”
This is really funny if you’re a chemist, I promise.
Anyway, my question regards the HOMO bit. …
Sars,
Wedding etiquette inquiry for you, o wise one.Okay, here’s the deal.I’ve been dating the girlfriend for about a year and a half.We’re not engaged, but pretty much as soon as I find some time to …
Dear Sars,
My workplace has an abundance of people and not enough office space.Those not lucky enough to have an office to themselves either have to double up or sit in Cubicle City.
I tend not to …
Lionel and Tjinder are standing on The Driver’s side porch. Lionel is on the phone with Diz; Tjinder is shifting from foot to foot. He looks at their car in the driveway, and at his …
So!
There’s an Issue that has been slowly evolving in my relationship.
I’m hoping you haven’t heard this one a thousand times before because I
really need an outside view and neither my friends nor his friends are …
Sars,
I divorced my wife three years ago leaving me a 28-year-old single father of two absent from the dating
scene for over a decade.
Three years later, I’m 31 years old and still single,
but that isn’t …