Commoner is the opposite of royalty. Aristocrats can be commoners, as both Diana and the Queen Mum were before each married.

As Steven Wright says, your family can really push your buttons. After all, they installed them.

Aussie Christmas is not so far off from South Carolina Christmas, where ice cream seems like a great idea.

Totally. I imagine it’s way easier to be further down the line, like Harry and Meghan, than to be the Cambridges!! Must have been even harder for Diana, because we did not have the cautionary tale of Diana....

Cinnamon Stars are not Lebkuchen. Zimtsterne are more like a macaroon—crushed almonds in my mom’s recipe, bound together with egg whites, and seasoned with orange and cinnamon. Lebkuchen are a sort of molasses gingerbread deal. That said, TJ’s Cinnamon Stars are not quite like mom’s—denser, but still great. I don’t…

Wellll.....I am on a foster care review board in my southern state, and the first six months, the Department of Social Services’ policy is to state “Reunification.” However, the legal standard is the best interests of the child, which is construed as permanency for the child, be it with parent(s), other relatives,…

It’s the breathing in and out to the count that is the real help...

Please help me! I have a West Elm side table with a shiny white marble top. I left my clear silicone metatarsal foot pads on it over night, and I have a definite shadowy gray spot there. What would lift it?

The model kinda looks like Meghan, so....

SaaaaandringHaaaaam. Lordy, y’all make fun of how we talk down here, but SaaaaandringHaaaam.

Lands’ End. Talbot’s. J Jill. All have good quality, plain basics, well made, in larger straight-, and plus-sizes (important for me because I am a flat-chested, tall, large person with a round butt, so large straight size tops and curvy plus-size pants, with tall inseams are necessary....

I got a Prime Wardrobe box full of shoes (all 7 were supposed to be the same size and only one pair fit—it was Goldilocks) and three pairs of pants, and two fit—and I am a 16-18 tall. They don’t charge you if you return them with in a certain short window, plus there’s a longish return time after that.

Aw, c’mon. He signs his name everywhere. He probably takes a Sharpie, a gold Sharpie, to the restroom to scrawl his beloved name on the wall.

Well, it’s like Betty/Veronica: Kate/Meghan, Lillibet/Margaret

There’s a story about how Diana phoned either Tina Brown or Liz Tilberis before they were BFFs, and said, “Hello, this Diana.” The other woman asked, “Diana who?” and Diana stammered, “Diana Windsor.”

Mountbatten, which is the Anglicized version of Battenburg, the original version. (Beautiful lace, btws).

He looks a bit more genuine than she, especially in the close-up—and she’s the actor....

Real Southerner here, born and raised in South Carolina. 1. Never use pre-shredded cheese in pimiento cheese. The anti-caking stuff or something changes the texture so it doesn’t meld as well. I use the large holes in a box grater and it turns out wonderfully. 2. If you are using mayonnaise, which I do, but some…

My husband is a professor, has been for almost 30 years. He is popular with his students, but he’s never gotten a gift, except from a couple of Chinese students! It’s not an American thing to do.

I don’t think it’s illegal to tip your professors, but weird to do so. If it looks like you are bribing them, maybe, but then what is a tip but a post facto bribe?