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The Vine

The Tomato Nation advice column addresses your questions on etiquette, grammar, romance, and pet misbehavior. Ask The Readers about books or fashion today!

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The Vine: October 1, 2010
October 1, 2010 – 9:46 AM | 10 Comments
The Vine: October 1, 2010

I’m trying to find a collection of fairy tales I owned as a child in the late ’80s. It was a bigger-sized (length and width) book, with beautiful illustrations. The pictures were kind of like …

The Vine: September 24, 2010
September 24, 2010 – 3:35 PM | 16 Comments
The Vine: September 24, 2010

I have gone crazy trying to find two “movies” that were aired on (I think) HBO back in the early to mid-1980s. Google and other sites have failed my usually pop-culture-infused brain.
(Note: I think these …

The Vine: September 17, 2010
September 17, 2010 – 1:37 PM | 126 Comments
The Vine: September 17, 2010

Dear Sarah,
I will be spending a month in the States shortly, flying into New York on the third of October and out of San Francisco third November. Those flights are pretty much my only parameters. …

The Vine: September 3, 2010
September 3, 2010 – 10:30 AM | 13 Comments
The Vine: September 3, 2010

I’d love help finding two books, one for myself and one for a friend. Friend’s is a children’s book about a hunter who shoots the tail off a swamp monster and eats the tail. He …

The Vine: August 27, 2010
August 27, 2010 – 11:56 AM | 13 Comments
The Vine: August 27, 2010

Hi Sars,
I have a song question for you and the readers. I’m in Baltimore and spend most of my radio time listening to WTMD, which is a local university’s radio station. They play a lot …

The Vine: August 20, 2010
August 20, 2010 – 9:34 AM | 4 Comments
The Vine: August 20, 2010

Hi Sars,
I used to have this cassette tape that I listened to a bunch, probably in the early ’90s. It was a story read by a man (I think), that was probably an audio adaptation …

The Vine: August 13, 2010
August 13, 2010 – 8:50 AM | 36 Comments
The Vine: August 13, 2010

Oh Wise Nation,
After spending two days of my honeymoon with hives, and another day half asleep from Benadryl, I need help.
My go-to facial moisturizer/sunscreen for years (years!!) has been Oil of Olay for oily/combination …

The Vine: August 6, 2010
August 6, 2010 – 9:20 AM | 15 Comments
The Vine: August 6, 2010

I need help finding this obscure short story I read back in the 5th grade, around 1985. It was a sci-fi time travel story, possibly written for a middle-grade/YA audience, and it was anthologized in …

The Vine: July 30, 2010
July 30, 2010 – 8:31 AM | 104 Comments
The Vine: July 30, 2010

Sars,
I just had a seriously depressing epiphany about myself, and, as a result, went spelunking in your archives, unsuccessfully. I seem to recall a Vine within the last couple of years where folks went off …

The Vine: July 23, 2010
July 23, 2010 – 10:16 AM | 65 Comments
The Vine: July 23, 2010

Dear Sars,
I am a single woman with limited amounts of time and money. I’d like to start eating healthier and thriftier, but the two don’t seem to go together very well.
There have been a …