A Good Family Name
Stick thinks I should change my name when we get married. I say no, not because I don’t like the Malavette name, but because there are lots of Mrs. Malavettes but only one Meg Stivison. So I came up with a counter offer.
“Why not?” I asked him. “Lots of people hyphenate!”
“But you’re not talking about Malavette-Stivison.”
“What? There’s a hyphen in Julio-Claudian!”
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1Kevin
wrote on 19 April 2009 at 12:34
DO IT!
2Meg
wrote on 19 April 2009 at 12:39
That’s what I said!
3Diana
wrote on 19 April 2009 at 21:41
You are totally right, Meg! I too will hyphenate my name to Carvalho-Lallo!!
4Still In China
wrote on 20 April 2009 at 8:30
Would your students have to call you Mrs. Julio-Claudian?
5Luke Gedeon
wrote on 25 April 2009 at 22:00
You should both change to Simpson. I keep thinking that is your last name anyway, and Stick Simpson just sounds right.
6Meg
wrote on 25 April 2009 at 22:47
We get junk mail addressed to the Simpson Family already!
7Bakugan
wrote on 18 May 2009 at 3:55
Any chance you might want to write a few posts for my site?