Dear L. A. Plume,

            My dear friend has recently received a letter from her daughter-in-law to be, and it’s the vilest, most cruel, inflammatory and derogatory letter I have ever read. My friend is devastated by this young woman’s obvious capacity for hatred, and she can only wonder when it will extend to the rest of the family as well as the children, and she is confused by what outcome was expected.

Dear L. A. Plume,

One of the joys here in the SC Lowcountry is that required dress for most occasions is generally on the casual side. Unfortunately, that's also one of the tricky things, only because some of us were raised by mothers whose fashion mantra was: "But what would people think?"