Turns out, my husband doesn’t care about names
I wrote this piece on the Huffington Post about my struggle with my hyphenated, post-marriage last name. I always assumed my husband had strong feelings about the name thing. Turns out, when he said he didn’t mind, he meant it.
A name is forever, once it’s been indexed in Google. There’s been much buzz about how to juice your Google presence by making your name more unusual, but what is a woman to do when she gets married? A quest for search engine optimization tips about how to preserve your Google rankings when you change your name came up short, so I’m open to suggestions. It’s a feminist 2.0 dilemma.
I’m reduced, like my friend Hillary, to confusion at introductions. Hillary said,
“I have that moment when I introduce myself and literally pause. So I’ve become just Hillary– a Madonna like thing.”
Oh, we cackled over that one. I feel exactly the same way. I’m constantly emphasizing my first name and garbling, or even omitting my last name upon introduction, as if I were introducing myself to a five year old instead of a business associate.
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