When one needs baseball-related gift ideas, one turns to The Vine.
My gifting needs are for my uncle who is in his late 70s and works for the Texas Rangers. He reads a lot and I’ve …

Hi Sars — I’ve enjoyed your site for years and hope to tap into the book knowledge that you and your readers have. I have a 7-year-old son who is a voracious reader. I love …

I’ve tried for years to find a YA book that I read and owned back in the late ’80s/early ’90s but I can’t find anything on the interwebs. So now I turn to you and …

I need shoes. I’ve been a student for a long time, but now I’m at the point where I can’t wear jeans and running shoes every day. So I need a nice basic pair of …

Years ago, I’d say in the late 1980s, I saw what was either a one-hour show or a full-length movie on PBS (specifically WNET, Channel 13) where a group of kids wound up getting into …

Sometime in the early ’90s, there was a wave of New Country — Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, that gang. And there was a song that I LOVED. But I can’t remember very much about it, …

I am desperately searching for a collection of scary stories I read in middle school (circa 1993-1995). I remember two stories from the collection very vividly.
1.  One story was called “Lockers.” It was about a …

So, it’s getting toward Halloween-time, and I’ve had a sudden nostalgic craving for ghost stories. When I was in school, I was hooked on those creepy ghost/scary story books you could snag through the Scholastic …

In case any of the people who helped with advice for our U.S. road trip are interested, here are links to photos of our trip:
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We had a fab …

My brother and I had a toy when we were younger. It was very high-tech (for the time) and was a plastic, working headset. It came with various cartridge and book sets. The cartridge plugged …