“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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…and in the drama since I sent you that email, I forgot all about it – thought you’d like the update. First off, your advice was excellent, thank you. The person who wrote suggesting my …
Hi Sarah,It’s not my usual policy to write regarding messages in your advice column; usually your insight and suggestions are excellent anyway. While I think your advice to Suddenly Alone was not substandard, I don’t …
Okay, so I’ve been married for three months. My husband’s been having a rough time lately. His job is incredibly stressful. The man who has been a father figure to him all his life has …
Hi,
My boyfriend and I have been going out for over a year now and I love him to bits but he’s so frustrating.At the moment we are on a one-week break trying to sort out …
Dear Sarah,
My brother and his fiancée will be getting married in a couple of weeks. This should be a time of joy, togetherness and warm family feeling.Well, the family feeling has been anything but warm …
I very recently discovered your site and among other things have been checking out the advice you’ve been giving in The Vine over the past few weeks. I think you do a great job of …
I hired an intern recently – namely, my brother Mr. Stupidhead. It’s working out really well; not only can I send him out into the world to deal with obnoxious errands like going to (read: …
Every twenty-eight days or so, I find myself standing on the sidewalk in front of my neighborhood drugstore, taking deep cleansing breaths and thinking good karmic thoughts so that I don’t blow my stack and …
I’ve probably read Charlotte’s Web fifty times. I love that book, I love Charlotte the spider, and I always cry at the end when her little ballooning babies take to the wind. And I know …
I don’t know that I have the necessary qualifications to comment on women’s fashion. Right now, I have on a v-neck t-shirt from J. Crew that dates back to the Bush administration, men’s Gap cargo …