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The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!
Hey Sars,
You kids today.No one uses the telephone anymore?The advice to
Parentheses was good, but it seems to me that the technology involved might
be part of the problem.With the avalanche of emails I receive daily just
trying …
I’ve been struggling with wording for this all morning and afternoon.
Mmmm, tough subjects.
So you wrote a wonderful response to Post-Coital Worrier, but I still wanted
to throw in some advice from someone who’s been there.
Essentially…I’m like …
As a dog-trainer apprentice
and the owner of a dog who suffered VERY extreme separation anxiety
until age three, I thought I might be of some help.
There are a number of issues taking place from the training
perspective.The …
Hi Sars —
Longtime reader, first-time writer.Your sites — all of them — rock.
I just wanted to say you were absolutely on target in your response to “Caring Cousin” — that she not try to make …
Hi Sarah,
Two years ago, I wrote to you regarding my (now) ex-boyfriend and putting a baby up for adoption.Actually, yesterday was her second birthday.
Your advice to To Tell or Not To Tell was pretty much …
At the time of year when the summer falls back and the fall verges forward, the two seasons leave a space between them in my head for all the years before. If a single madeleine …
Dear Sars:
Just read the letter from “In” Love Alone, and I swear that could have been me talking two weeks ago. Here’s the thing — he’s not going to stay. He wants to break up, …
Dear Sars,
First off, will you marry me? Not, you know, really.
But maybe metaphysically? Or in that way that one
proposes to people on TV?
Anyway, regarding the dilemma of A Regular TN Reader.
I’m in high school, and …
Dear Sars,
I have a quick question, and judging from other Vine Q&As, you seem like
a good person to ask.
I am a part-time English/ESL tutor while in university, and I’m in that
unfortunate position of having a …
Sars,
First of all, excellent advice about Jerry, the check-low-balling
cheapskate who should be returning his bottles for the deposit instead
of screwing his friends into paying the whole check.
Secondly, I’ve always found it easier just to have …