“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,
I have this close friend who is actually my roommate as well. About two years ago she confessed that she had a flirtation with a married man, which escalated to a few kisses. The …
Sarah —
I just got out of my very small and therefore gossipy and incestuous college, and moved to a large city with the hopes of creating a new life, something which has become very difficult …
Sagacious Sars,
About two years ago, I decided that I’d had enough of the “starving artist” life (constantly two months behind on the rent, credit card bills that rivaled the debt of a Third World nation, …
All-knowing Sarah,
I am beginning to think I am the poster girl for the “something’s missing” relationships of the world.
I am twenty-seven years old, and I can still count the men who have mattered to me …
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 …
And now, a Tomato Nation first: the follow-up column. I have an unofficial policy regarding follow-up columns, namely that I never write them because, if I didn’t get the job done the first time around, …
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 …