“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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I am looking for a way to offer advice to a sibling without being too much of a busybody. It’s like this: my younger brother has been dating this girl for a couple of years …
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It’s Martin Luther King Day today. I suspect that, when it rolls around each year, most of us don’t spend the day ruminating on Reverend King’s contributions to society or anything. We just look at …
I’ve driven to Toronto from New York City and back about half a dozen times now, and each time I make the trip, I reach a point about two hundred and seventy five miles into …
I made a couple of New Year’s resolutions this year. I don’t bother, ordinarily, since the average New Year’s resolution is pointless, unrealistic, and destined to go the way of the Edsel by Valentine’s Day, …
Sars,
The whole “younger men suck” thing is overrated. Yeah, some of them do, but not all, by any means.
My husband and I started dating when he was 21 and I was 26. We’ve been together …
Hey Sars.
I’ve been having a problem with a friend of mine — or ex-friend — I don’t really know. We were good friends for three years throughout college (I graduated last year, he’s graduating this …
Hi!
I need some advice — do you think there is something wrong with an older woman/younger man relationship? There is a seven-year age difference between us — I really like him a lot, we have …
Sarah,
I think I’ve been trying to avoid asking this question for a long time, but at this point, I think I need an outside, objective opinion. This is another one of those will-this-long-distance-relationship-work type of …
Dear Sarah,
I’m not writing on my own behalf so much as I am for my SO, in a sense, but my question is: is it possible that he’s been abused in the past, and if …