“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 Sarah,
Hope you enjoyed your trip, welcome back.
Some time ago I commented about our shared dislike for men’s white briefs. Well, how about giving it to the girls too? I am referring to the infamous …
This is how it went down,
Not long after graduating from college, feeling the impending threat of student loans, I took a job with the Department of Defense in a management intern program.It would be a …
Dear Sarah,
I’m planning to move to Chicago in about six months.I used to live there, and moved back to my hometown (my mother’s suggestion) about two years ago.When I moved here, it was to save …
Dear Sarah,
Seeing as how you have a cat, this letter might be insulting to you, but I’d like your advice anyway.I hate cats.Very much.I’m not sure why, but I’ve always thought that cats are the …
I have been married for six months to a man twelve years my junior (blah blah you go girl blah).That’s not the problem.I don’t think.
When we met, I was a cigarette smoker and he was …
Sarah,
I think your advice to Third Wheel about whether Adam should choose spending time with her over his sister doesn’t quite get to the heart of the matter.Any well-adjusted individual will have other friends, family …
I have been online friends with these two girls for over two years. Last Christmas they all sent me gifts, even though I told them I don’t celebrate Christmas and they didn’t have to send …
Nobody likes commercials. We might enjoy individual commercials, of course – the recent Volkswagen ad campaign, for example, or the “whaaaazzzaaaap” ads before the parodies got so played out – but on the whole, we …
Every year at around this time – when I’ve exhumed my sweaters from the back of the closet, returned my mittens to their rightful place on the radiator, and resumed my wintertime habit of grounding …
I have recurring anxiety dreams. In the anxiety dream I have most often, my teeth start to get loose, and in my dream, it’s the weekend, so I can’t go to the dentist, so I …