kellyfaircloth
Kelly Faircloth
kellyfaircloth
Senior Editor at Jezebel, specializing in books, royals, romance novels, houses, history, and the stories we tell about domesticity and femininity. Resident Windsor expert.

It zipped by pretty quick — he was doing the teasing-but-not thing. Read more

Ah, the pollen film. I drove a black car in high school in Georgia. But for two months out of the year it was more chartreuse. Read more

Itchy palate is the root cause of my case of Bitchy Resting Face. Read more

Yes BUT you must admit there's nothing worse than sneezing while sweaty. It's the only thing worse than being sunburnt AND hungover. Read more

I know this is a very serious issue but I hear "kitten monsoon" and all I can think is YEESSSSS RAIN DOWN ON ME, KITTENS Read more

Generally, "Another fun thing to do with your money is to remove it from the bank in the form of small bills and set them on fire" is not the sort of language you'll see in a sponsored post. Read more

Uh, I probably wouldn't have eaten the cookies... because I would have dumped the whole basket on her head. But people seem to feel they have some special license to say things like that when they hear you're getting married! Read more

I invite you to share your story via Kinja. However, please note that the polar bear translation function is still in beta mode. Read more

And, hours later, I just realized I confused prepositions and pronouns. Maybe this is why I'm so bad at languages? Read more

Unfortunately, it never quite stuck for me so I can't quite remember how it worked. All I remember was the sinking feeling of despair at realizing I couldn't even count on damn old prepositions to work like I was used to. Read more

Random biographical fact: I took Irish for a couple of semesters in college, which requires you to conjugate PRONOUNS. Read more

By God these apprentices will learn the value of a ducat or I'm not the Master Mercer around here. Read more

It also would've made for great reality TV. "Tune in tonight, for Ye Olde Time Teen Swap!" Read more

Yeah, I think when it becomes a problem/obnoxious is when it's just NON-STOP. Also, they lose their effectiveness if that's literally all you're posting. Read more