“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!
Dear Sars,
My problem is fairly simple.I am a 21-year-old full-time college student.My parents are still together, and I consider my childhood a happy one.But I am the eldest of four kids — three girls and …
Dear Sars,
I have this friend and it seems like she is trying to avoid me. She is hanging out with people I don’t like and tries to make me hang out with them too. I …
I tuned in to Oprah last Tuesday, as I try to do every Tuesday, because I love Dr. Phil truly and deeply and I don’t care who knows it. Dr. Phil rules all within his …
Sars,
This is a simple one- where does a V.D.-free guy with no ostensible sores go to meet women looking for real love (to quote Michael McDonald) in this big bad city of ours? Clubs are …
Dear Sars,
I am a twenty-four-year-old gay Aussie living in Scotland (stay with me, it gets better) who, after two life-changing, picture-perfect years must now return home or risk being imprisoned as an illegal alien. That’s …
Dear Sars,
My boyfriend and I have been dating for about a year and living together for about five months.I’m madly in love with him.From the very beginning, we’ve been best friends as well as lovers …
Dear Sars,
I need some post-romantic advice.I began dating Mr. Big in 1998, and the relationship lasted two years.We never moved in together, but he slept over at my place so often that we might as …
I feel like a child, still, often — what I eat, what makes me laugh, the way I live, as though adulthood is merely an unsupervised and occasionally disagreeable slumber party. Crossing the continent, spending …
Hi Sars,
In response to Always — aside from all the confidence boosting, if she is looking for a more systematic approach to finding a new city to live in, she should check out What Color …
Hi, Sars —
I know you’re not a guidance counselor but I’m looking for some life advice. My life seems to have always been guided by someone else’s decisions or no decision at all. From high …