The Vine: December 1, 2025
Dear Sars, I was surprised and delighted to learn that there’s new Vine material when I checked in recently for the annual 9/11 essay. Yay! I used to LIVE for Vine day. You have no idea. ...
Tomato Nation
better red than dead
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Celebrations
Pizza, TV, a lunatic Frenchman in ballet slippers, and a makeshift cake. "Welcome Back," indeed.
The Vine: May 22, 2025
A friend-group update and a short-story quest.
Sleep
Whether it's a noun, plus what to read if you can't.
The Vine: January 21, 2025
First of all, welcome back! I kept TN in my bookmark bar hoping you’d be back. :-) The question is about a book that might be a fever dream. I read this book more than 20 ...
Bob & David & Pete & Donald
Thanks to Reader Gretchen, I have more Bob Uecker-iana than some Brewers fans: multiple bobbles, a Uecker Magic 8 Ball, and an old-school alarm clock that ticks so loudly I had to banish it from ...
Dear Professor
International hero Victor Brombert left us last month. We couldn't spare him.
The Vine: December 4, 2024
Dear Sars, Welcome back! Dear cracking dry hands season, not so much. I’m here to ask you/the readers about a product I could swear I saw mentioned on the Vine ages ago, but I can’t find ...
The Vine: November 8, 2024
Hey. I don’t know what we do now either. I DO know that we’ll need each other going forward, as we always have, for support, mutual aid, and information on where to get high-quality wide-calf ...
Bonded Pairs
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a lonely girl in possession of a library card must be in want of a twin. The child who spends a lot of time in books also spends a lot of time thinking about the lost or secret twin she must have – "must have" meaning surely has, but "must have" in the sense of "needs," also – that mirror child who loves her, IS her, holds her hand always.