“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.
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Re: books about baseball.
I also suggest all of W.P. Kinsella’s novels and short stories that have to do with baseball.I’m not a huge baseball fan, but my dad was —
Kinsella’s baseball books make me all …
Dear Sarah,
I have a question, but first a little background.My parents are not sports fans, and seeing as how my home team, the Seattle Mariners, basically sucked for most of their, and my, existence, I …
Yearbook pages followed a strict blueprint at my high school. Mrs. McPherson gave us a square of blue graph paper, and a couple of weeks later we brought it back to her, a professional photo …
Hey Sarah,
Yes, it’s another email about Buttercup.Sorry but today’s email about her poked at me a bit.I’ve been engaged before and through the grace of God or just myself I realized that wasn’t the person …
Dear Sars,
You seem to have a lot of good, classy advice to give. Right now, I definitely need some.
My boyfriend and I have been together for six months and I recently moved into his house …
Sars, I love your work, et cetera.
Here’s my problem, and it’s a fatal one:
I’m currently apartment/cat/fish-sitting for two friends of mine.Everything has gone fairly well.The cats and I play and sleep together, I’ve watered everything …
Hi Sars,
I have been a long time reader and fan of your work at MBTV and here at Tomato Nation. You give very good advice, and I would really appreciate a little help. Here’s the …
Last night, Q and I settled down on the couch with a couple of big sandwiches, a bag of chips, a bottle of wine, and the premiere of Degrassi: The Next Generation. I’d had the …
Sars,
I’ve been reading the problem of and answers to Officemate with interest. Although I don’t have a co-worker with this abusive boyfriend problem, I do have a close friend. Although I don’t think it’s gotten …
Sars,
Insert fawning praise of your web site and other projects here. I enjoy all the things you write, thanks so much for sharing them with the world.
Worried Officemate needs to know that Susan has a …