Tomato Nation » Blog Archive » Brothers and Sisters: "Grapes of Wrath": can I ask why the imagined-demise location of choice among mothers is a ditch? Because it's always a ditch, am I right? Did your mother ever say, when you came home past curfew, that she thought you were dead in a parking lot, or a mall, or a pond? No. For all she knew, you could have been DEAD IN A DITCH SOMEWHERE…and don't forget the use of 'somewhere,' because it's never a ditch near where you live hehee, because you don't have any ditches near where you live, your mother has never even seen a ditch, it's just something her mother said to her.

sars is pretty good huh. and I found (at lst a ggl cache of) a post here on her blog re the magazine Jane where she talks about how much she liked Sassy -- and so I conclude that yes, she is the same Sarah D Bunting being quoted in the Sassy book. seems odd they didn't identify her as editor of TWoP

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nb looks like she's about 5 yrs older th me? Princeton grad '94:
PAW December 4, 2002: Perspective Sarah D. Bunting ’94, a former PAW student columnist, is coeditor-in-chief of the website Television Without Pity (www.televisionwithoutpity.com). ...
www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW02-03/06-1204/perspective.html