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One of the first things that people started asking when I announced I’ll be getting married this summer was whether I plan to change my name. My last name, already, is hyphenated because my father took on my mother’s maiden name attached to his. Over the years it’s been a source of pride for me. I always that it was cool that my dad loved my mom so much that he didn’t want her to be the only one to change by getting married.
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As I sit to write this, we are in the throws of the Christmas shopping season. My niece-in-law got up from our Thanksgiving gathering to catch the pre-Friday sales that are sadly becoming the new norm. We have Black Friday starting on Thursday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday to entice us to open our wallets to feed our need for products consumption before the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone.
For the last five years or so, I’ve been one of those people. Those intense people who corner you at a party and try to explain the details of the forthcoming supposed Mayan prophecy. I’ve been obsessed with it since early 2007, and I remember that then, I took great comfort in the fact that it was four and a half years away – at least I had that buffer. But not anymore – it’s no longer as far away as the stars that define it; it’s upon us in a matter of days.
Sadness. Anger. Confusion. Anxiety. When is this going to stop? Should I go get my children now or let them stay? What do tell them? All these emotions and questions chased my thoughts as I learned news of the tragedy in Connecticut. Then a call came thorough on my cell phone from the kids’ school district alerting parents that there is heightened security at all schools in response to the incident in Connecticut.
Lesbian fashion is not an oxymoron. Lesbians have always been an important part of fashion. When I worked in the fashion industry in New York City, I knew plenty of lesbians in the industry. They were never the name on the door – they were the names behind the ‘names.’
Your ‘you-ness’ is the thing that makes you, you. Your ‘-ness’ is the essence of everything that makes you truly amazing and wonderful. There are many things about us that are similar, yet even identical twins aren’t really identical. Everyone is unique and wonderful in her or his own way. Everyone has her or his own ‘-ness.’
As we sat around the dinner table contemplating what we, as a family, were going to do this holiday season, things got quite loud – as you might suspect they would with six opinions. We had a lot of questions to answer and agree upon as one family unit. Were we going to invite family over to our house? Were we going to any particular family member’s home? Or was it just going to be us this year?
