What is Ask a Dilettante?
Ask a Dilettante is an "advice" (or "bitchy") column that first appeared on Houstonist.com. The column lives on here, answering your questions as they come in.

How can I submit a question to Ask a Dilettante?
Send your queries to crystal at cryjack dot com. Anything goes, as long as the question is interesting. Or really, really boring. No middle ground.

Isn't "dilettante" basically an insult?
By stating that I am, at best, a dabbler - jack(son) of all trades, master of none - there’s no need to worry that someone is going to take any of this too seriously. Unless they want to.

Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante.