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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!
Dear Sars,
I have kind of an unconventional problem.Reading your column (and, well, existing in society), I’m confronted on all sides with love and sex and romance.It seems like that’s all people ever talk about at …
Dear Sars,
Due to the lack of decent television viewing, I’ve been forced to spend more time with my in-laws than usual, which prompted a recent unfortunate incident on which I’d like to get your take.
A …
For all of my 16 years, I’ve been known as the boyfriendless wonder. Well, I can’t say the same for my friends. They each go and get their boyfriends, and do the whole random hook-ups …
Dear God,
What next? Seriously. I’d like to know. What’s going to happen next? What could possibly happen now? What else can You dump on New York City that You haven’t already? What is going through …
Sars,
There’s this boy. We’re from the same smallish town, so I’ve known him since we were about five or six, though we were never really friends, just passing acquaintances, at most. In high school, we …
Sars,
If it were my advice column (which, admittedly, it’s not), I wouldn’t be so quick to encourage “A Grateful Reader” to a do-or-die confrontation with her husband.
First of all, there are lots of physical issues …
Hiya Sars.
I am in need of one of your patented nuggets of witty yet insightful wisdom — I hope you can help me out.
Me: 26, smart, funny, a little on the shy and reserved side …
Sars,
I really need your advice, O Level-Headed One.
The situation: at 29, I’ve just finished two years of college, and damn proud of myself I am too. I’ve been fighting with clinical depression, agoraphobia, bulimia, and …
So, that’s that. The World Series over, the Yankees dethroned at last. I sat on the couch last night at the beginning of the bottom of the ninth, chain-smoking, every muscle in my body tense, …
Hey there, Sars.
Just read your response to “Considering,” the girl whose roommate is so very annoying.Usually I agree with your Vine advice, but this time, I’ve got to take issue with your solution. I lived …