Too bad for Harry. Just missed the opportunity to get himself into a relationship with English royalty.

She is totally referring to the news that Benicio Del Torro is only 48. Take heart. Tell us more about Harry and his future bride.

So, I went to a very strict Catholic boarding school, although I was a day student during the week and then went home on the weekends. When I was about 7/8 we started learning cursive writing. A very young, new nun (as in she had just taken her vows) took us for both handwriting and bible classes. I was having trouble…

High five, young feminist!

I used to stare hard at my 5th grade teacher, convinced I was a witch who would meld minds.

I want your old house SO BAD. Also, there's something very charming about big old dogs that will do anything for the toddlers they love.

I started speaking really young, and, evidently, I also picked up curse words and was using them a lot. Mom had a talk with me about the naughty words and that was that. Some time later my grandfather said, "This damn car!" in my presence (because I was a baby and shouldn't have been able to understand). I promptly…

Similar story: I knew what the tops of my dad's underwear looked like, because he'd sit on the floor and I'd see the waistband behind his jeans, and then I'd see my mom doing his laundry and connect the dots as to what men's underpants looked like. Only one day, he leaned over and I noticed that although there was a…

Mr. MacNasty went to first grade at the height of the Cold War and proudly announced he wanted to be a Cosmonaut. "You meant astronaut, don't you?" the teacher prompted, whereupon he expounded at length on the superiority of the Russian space program.

I was also a quick reader and learner of words, and my mother enjoys telling the story of how one day, when I was like a year and a half old, I was sitting in my high chair playing with toys. Apparently I was having some difficulty, because I looked at her and said, very seriously, "This fucking thing doesn't work."

A few months ago we were taking my 3 year old home from her grandmother's house and she was just devastated. In between sobs she screamed "I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS!" and my husband and I laughed so hard that she just cries harder.

Oh, lord, this is something that, to this day, I will never hear the end of. My parents took me to Vegas to put me on a plane to Kansas for a month. We made a little trip out of it and were staying at the Luxor, when it first opened. The night before my flight, my parents went down to the casino to gamble, and I…

Oh, here's some more!

I am an only child and was always bent on trying to be Adult, especially in the car, for some reason. Favorites of my parents include, "May you please louden the radio?" and "What is he waiting for, an innitation?" (stopped too long at a stop sign). When I got a little older, I raised my hand to a passing car and told…

I was much more industrious as a child than as an adult. I once drew, designed, and wrote a whole lifestyle magazine...for bugs. It was around when I had just reached literacy age so it's pretty unintelligible and hilarious. I drew fake ads, made art, and "wrote" articles for it. I think I still have somewhere. Also…

I've always had a really good memory, and was very good at memorizing pieces and poems, especially Shel Silverstein poems. My parents were very proud of their little elocutionist-out-of -time prodigy and had me recite for various relatives. Once when I was around six they started tossing around the idea that I should…

I put lipstick on my stuffed raccoon. In retrospect, pretty sure that raccoon was a boy to me.

I have two that come to mind:

I saw "Annie" on Broadway and was completely obsessed with the kids in the cast. I was certain I could do what they did, but I had no idea how they got those jobs. I wasn't aware of the concept of "auditions," so I just figured that they were all just...discovered. This led to several years of my singing "Maybe" at…

I wrote a letter to Mrs. Claus saying I "thought she would like a letter because her husband gets so much mail, and I thought she might feel overlooked when she was still an important part of Christmas".