Hi Kate! I have never written to an advice thing before so I’m just gonna jump right in. I hosted a NYE party last week and I had a mix of friends and family there. My cousin (who we will call Jeff) was there and he’s one of my oldest and best friends. We […]
Hello Sammon Says, I don’t know what it is about me, but I seem to attract “best” friends that treat me like, for lack of a better word, shit. So, I find myself, yet again, in a position of being “best” friends with someone who I don’t really believe actually deserves that title. The only […]
Hey Sammon, About three months ago, the girl I’d been dating for about nine months dumped me. She said it was because of family stuff and the stress of that, but to be honest, I always felt more into her than she was with me. My best friend tells me she’s the “unattached pixie” type, […]
Somewhere in the world, there’s a photo of a 14 year-old me standing in my family’s kitchen beside a lanky, gray-faced, shirtless young man, giving a thumbs up. His name was Jake and he’d just gotten a “Dr. Feelgood” tattoo on his back, thus the reason he was shirtless. I guess the thumbs up meant […]
Dear Sammon Says, My mom is voting for Donald Trump. I know, I know- this is not an uncommon problem, but it causing me emotional distress because it goes against everything she ever taught me. And I don’t know what to do. Do I keep quiet? Or say something? (Back story: I am the political […]
Welcome to the FIRST EVER advice post on Sammon Says!!!! Thank you to “Spineless in Seattle” for writing! Here goes… Dear Kate/Sammon Says, I’ve always struggled with failure. And the fear of that failure has determined how I live much of my life. I’ve recently decided to make some changes – primarily by doing the whole “fake […]
I’m bad at a lot of things. When I consider all the things in the world one could be good at, I realize that I’m bad at most of them. Math? Bad Anything involving the words “systematic”, “analytic”, “linear”, or “logic”? Ugh, not even interested. Driving? Okayish, besides multiple speeding tickets (a decade ago) and […]
