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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,
You’ve helped me before. I’m a big fan. Your DC recaps slay me.
I am, right now, at age seventeen, going through a very stressful time.The problem is not necessarily the stress, but what the …
I went shopping last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I know, I know. But Wing Chun needed Christmas cards, and so did I, and we figured that that whole embrace-that-which-you-most-fear principle had to work for …
My dad is kind of a forbidding guy. He’s tall, he has a basso profundo voice (in high school, my friends would call my line, get the answering machine, call downstairs, hear Dad say “hello,” …
So the two of you get in the car at 8:47 in the morning for the ten-hour land-speed dash to Toronto. You’ve got coffee. You’ve got snacks. You’ve got maps. It’s snowing to beat the …
Sarah,
I don’t know that there’s an answer to this one, other than quit feeling guilty.But I’m looking for suggestions.
I once had a business partner who rapidly became a very close friend.Too close.Smothering close.I have a …
Sarah-
I’ve actually been in a similar situation before, so I have a different take on it. I was about as pure as Snowgirl was when I met an older guy who’d had a hell of …
Hi, Sarah –
I started college this fall admittedly lacking experience with guys. I had guy friends and a quasi-relationship with a guy who called me last week to fill me in on his new boyfriend, …
Dear Sarah,
I was best friends with a girl for 17 years. She was going through a tough time, and I tried to be there for her. One day out of the blue, she stopped talking …
Hey hon…
Can I jump in with an addendum to your advice for Frustrated and Confused…?
You told F&C that she should call up her church pastor (the one who failed to blow the whistle on S’s …
Dear Sarah,
First of all, I have been reading both your site as well as Mighty Big TV for a while now and find them both vastly amusing.Just thought you might like to hear that.
Anyway, here’s …