Baseball

“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.

Culture and Criticism

From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.

Donors Choose and Contests

Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.

Stories, True and Otherwise

Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.

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!

Home » Archive by Tags

Articles tagged with: boys (and girls)

The Vine: May 7, 2003
May 7, 2003 – 8:39 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
You’re the coolest. Seriously. Anyway, my question: I’m in eighth grade, and my friend Lindsay is suffering under the iron fist of a
really crappy math teacher (Mr. K). Though I don’t have him personally, …

The Vine: May 2, 2003
May 2, 2003 – 7:05 PM | No Comment

I know you are going to get a million e-mails on this, but…
The Bridezilla letter in The Vine was wrong re: shower invitations etiquette. According to every source I’ve seen, it’s fine to put registry …

The Vine: May 1, 2003
May 1, 2003 – 6:57 PM | No Comment

Oh Wise and Powerful Sars,
I’ve got a situation that I could really use an
outside and non-involved opinion on. About three and a
half years ago I ran across a girl online (let’s call
her “Lauren”) through mutual …

The Vine: April 30, 2003
April 30, 2003 – 7:40 PM | One Comment

Dear Sars —I find your advice amusing, insightful, and blunt, and I could use a dose of
all three. It all started with a boy, of course.A while back, I realized I
Had Feelings For a longtime …

The Vine: April 29, 2003
April 29, 2003 – 7:31 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I am getting married in three months, and having a bit of trouble with my maid of honor. I’ll call her “Cindy.” Basically, she has said a couple of times that I’m being a …

The Vine: April 23, 2003
April 23, 2003 – 6:26 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars:
About a year ago, I began experiencing several episodes of what I’ll call existential depression (that’s my fancy term for it, anyway). Bypassing the rather uninteresting details of these episodes, the upshot is that …

The Vine: April 22, 2003
April 22, 2003 – 6:00 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
Here’s kind of a twist on the classic love triangle story…
A year ago, I’ve met a wonderful man. He’s bitingly clever, possibly the funniest person I’ve ever met, and he entertains me greatly. We …

The Vine: April 18, 2003
April 18, 2003 – 5:26 PM | No Comment

Oh, oh, I know this one! I do! Impulsiveness-Impaired said:
“But you want to go to the beach and hang out? Ummm, sorry, can’t. I’ve got
readings and papers to catch up on, say I.”
Several paragraphs later, …

The Vine: April 17, 2003
April 17, 2003 – 5:17 PM | No Comment

Dear Sars,
I had two cats. Callie, 11, Anya 1. Sweeties, but they never really
caught onto the getting-along thing. They had their areas and stayed
out of reach, and after a few months, I had no cat …

The Vine: April 16, 2003
April 16, 2003 – 5:09 PM | No Comment

Hi Sars,
I have a dilemma involving an ex and a trip to Japan. I’ll start with
some background.
Let’s not give the ex an alias, because “he” works just fine. He and
I met over four years ago …