Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

The Vine: December 14, 2001
December 14, 2001 · No Comment

Hi Sars,
I need a bit of a point in the right direction, and from what I’ve seen you’re the person who can probably come up with the right way to go.
Six months ago, my best …

The Vine: December 13, 2001
December 13, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
I have a problem and no one to talk to about it. Everyone I know is too concerned with their own lives at the moment to give a crap about what I’m going through. So, …

The Vine: December 12, 2001
December 12, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
I need help with my husband and his predilection for porn.
There was a time about five or six years ago that we would read erotic fiction to enhance our sex lives.But as our relationship continued, …

The Vine: December 11, 2001
December 11, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
When I was in high school, there was a guy that I had a crush on and I’m 90 percent sure he felt the same, but we’re both shy and never hooked up.Three years pass …

Grasshopper: “Ow.”
December 10, 2001 · 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, New York Magazine ran a cover story entitled “Yoga Now,” which purported to follow the author’s personal yoga journey after the events of September 11. Yes, you read that correctly. “Personal …

The Vine: December 7, 2001
December 7, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
After several years in a relationship, I find myself single again and feeling clueless.How soon do you think you should tell a new prospect that you DO NOT want children?I think it should be out …

The Vine: December 5, 2001
December 5, 2001 · No Comment

Sars,
Your advice in The Vine is always so levelheaded and insightful.I am in need of your words of wisdom.
I met a man very recently.He and I hit it off like you wouldn’t believe. Good chemistry …

The Vine: December 4, 2001
December 4, 2001 · No Comment

Dear Sars,
I have a question for you, in your infinite grammatical wisdom.I was talking to My Uncle Who Was In Star Wars and My Uncle The Journalist this week (sorry, I only found out about …

Return Of The Native
December 3, 2001 · No Comment

The time eventually comes each year — usually in early October, but it varies, depending on the weather — for me to gather up all of my sandals and slides and summery shoes and put …

The Vine: November 30, 2001
November 30, 2001 · No Comment

Dear Sarah,
Last Friday, my fiancé and I broke up. It was a mutual decision, as both of us admitted that we weren’t making each other happy, and hadn’t been for months. Although I think we …