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by Remedios Aguirre Sullivan
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Photo- Yasser Bashi
When I decided to name my daughters María Fernanda and María José, I was thinking in Spanish. Spanish is a language in which having two names is like having only one that will sometimes shrink - making José Antonio become Pepe Toño or María Dolores turn into Marilolis. I thought that my daughters could pick between one of the two names if they did not like both. If they traveled to countries where other languages were spoken, it would always be easy to say their name - simply María.
I did not consider we would be living in a country where names would be so simplified; my daughters would end up having exactly the same name. When we lived in Mexico my daughters had two names and two last names. Now, living in the United States, and their names being "Americanized", they have one name and a last name. They are both Marías. Without the use of a middle initial, something that not a lot of people ask about, there is no way of knowing who is who.
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by Jay Bildstein
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Who says work has to be drudgery? Work, even menial tasks, can be fun. The idea that it must be serious, dull and unhappy is not just wrong, it is counterproductive. To increase productivity – your own and or that of your company’s – make work fun. To some people, this probably seems like an odd idea. They automatically assume that anything done for money must be inherently unpleasant. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The people who are most productive at their jobs are those who feel they are not working at all. Write a comment |
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