It is one thing for a dad to desire a dating “interview” for a 16 year old daughter. It is another thing when the daughter is 26 and shows herself to be intelligent, wise, and capable of making responsible decisions in every other area of her life. Abbey on August 15, 2014 at 10...
Her story had come out in messy exhaled fragments hyphenated by tears. A classmate rebuked by a teacher for an outfit deemed inappropriate for school. The predictable adolescent backlash. A girl-led campaign to wear crop tops and short shorts to school in rebellion. My daughter’s discomfort an...
The wordnon sequiturhas itsrootsin ancient Latin, where it means “does not follow.” Note the letteruat the end, before ther, innon sequitur, instead of the –erending common in English words. In writing,non sequituris not hyphenated. Non sequiturs in writing are used as aliterary device...
I’ve been told that the relationship between a father and a daughter is a unique and magical one. I’m excited to explore this, but I’m nervous, too. I’ve never been a girl, myself. And as a boy, most of my friends, (and your uncle, too) were boys. I was surrounded by ...
To Trump, these “hyphenated” kinds of Americans mean trouble for his ilk. They aren’t part of the old dominant structure of this country like he was and therefore must be something less than him. You can tell by the way he talks about people. “Oh, look at my African-American over...
In my social circle, most couples have maintained their birth names, though there have been a few who both hyphenated. Also my married female friends all use Ms. (or Dr., if applicable), and some don’t really mind when someone uses Mrs. without knowing their preference, but there are ...
We adopted Penn’s tokenization policy regarding hyphens, slashes, dashes and symbols, in which expressions containing hyphens and symbols are split into multiple tokens, with the exception of a list of bound affixes that don’t provide meaning in isolation (see Penn’s single token hyphenated wor...
A source told ET in May that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter filed the necessary paperwork when she turned 18. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the 18-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, is one step closer to dropping her father's surname from her own hyphenated surname...
According to Mass Legal Services, the child's last name may be the father's last name, the mother's last name, a hyphenated version of both, or any other last name that the couple wishes. The only time there would be an issue is if the parents can't come to an agreement on the ...
Pepe Le Pew, amirite? We’ll be circling back to him in a minute, but first I want to talk to you about India. You may not be aware of this, but there is, at present, a human rights travesty happening in India. According toThe Guardian, right now India is the least safe country...