Since I got engaged early last month and began planning a wedding for this summer, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be hitched. As someone who already lives with her husband-to-be, I wonder just how much marriage will actually change things, whether I’ll wake up the morning after the wedding feeling […]
I’m 26 and my girlfriend is 28 and we’ve been dating for a little over seven months. We both want the same things in life — marriage, kids, close ties to family on both sides, prosperous careers and a house in the ‘burbs. Things have been terrific, the best relationship either of us has been […]
Each year on the first day of school, there were kids who came back as entirely new people. They’d correct the teacher during role call. “Erin?” the teacher would ask, scanning the room. “I’m Nikki now,” Erin would say, presumptively going by her middle name. One girl changed her name so many times that by […]
Despite the fact that he is the future King of England, he is still a five years old boy in the eyes of his parents and his classmates. There are some royal rules when it comes to the last name of the royal family members. That rule is that they don’t need to use the […]
Some of you might be familiar with the royal family members not having, or not using the last name. Since their titles keep changing during their life, it’s no wonder some members of the royal family decide not to use a surname at all. In the end, if you are a member of the royal […]
