“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!
I have been friends with this guy since our first year of university. Just plain, ordinary, “Hey, how’s it goin’?” friends. Three years later, we ended up living less than a minute from each other, …
My best friend has been married to a verbally and emotionally abusive man (Bob) for two years. They have a two-year-old son, whom I adore. I have tried in the past to stay out of …
Dear Sarah,
I wouldn’t have written, except that I read your advice to that guy Dr. Strangelove. I wouldn’t presume to tell you your business, so I’m not, but I thought I might let you in …
Miss Bunting,
I have a problem with eating . . . I suppose you’d call me anorexic, although I don’t like to put it like that because it’s kind of embarrassing and weird. But recently it’s …
Here is a little problem for you. My mother didn’t have much to do with raising me after the sixth grade, due to her wanting to having a second childhood and moving out on my …
I bitch about clichés for a living: movie clichés, television clichés, clichés about the supposed differences between men and women. Still, clichés enter the language – and stick around long after we’ve tired of hearing …
Ernie and I had a lengthy conversation the other day, as we do almost every day, because we can never just get by with the “hey, how’s it going” check-in and have to complain about …
I mentioned in an article last fall that, one day, I’d like to invent something. At the time, I didn’t know what in particular I wanted to invent; I just knew that I wanted to …
I must stop watching Animal Planet. Every time I flip to Channel 86, it puts ideas in my head about acquiring kooky pets that have no business sharing a Manhattan studio with a human and …
Hello Sarah,
A couple of days ago, I received a very unexpected call from an ex-boyfriend. I haven’t spoken to him in a year, and haven’t seen him for nearly two. However, we had a very …