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•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1993
• STYLE
Renee Cherrin Erlich
gether, Rosenbaum-Soverinsky is a mouth-
ful. If it were short, I probably would have hy-
phenated but its really long and awkward. I
think my mom asked me if I was going to hy-
phenate my name, then she said Rosenbaum-
Soverinsky out loud and started laughing."
Of course, there are always those fortunate
few who don't even have to think about the
issue. In March, Bonnie Katz of Baltimore will
marry Neil Katz, whom she met on a blind
date in December 1991. "People have always
teased us about it," says Bonnie. "I've joked
about keeping my last name and hyphenat-
ing it as Bonnie Katz-Katz— or calling my-
self Bonnie Katz squared. Actually I'm relieved
that I don't have to worry about changing my
name."
In the spirit of compromise — one of the
little things that makes marriages work
some women now are using their maiden
name professionally and taking their hus-
band's name for social venues. They can pre-
sent a united family front without sacrificing
the professional names they've made for
themselves. This is the route I decided to take,
particularly because I'd been writing profes-
sionally under the name Colino for several
years before my husband and I got married.
For the most part, leading a double life has
suited me just fine: Work colleagues know
me by one name; friends know me by two.
But using surnames interchangeably can have
its drawbacks – not the least of which is re-
ceiving double the usual junk mail and being
asked for money not once but twice by the
same solicitors. (I suppose one could make
an environmental argument against this
arrangement; it does waste paper.) It can also
be confusing to remember whose name Sat-
urday night's dinner reservation was made
under. Then, there are those awkward mo-
ments when people don't know what to call
you.
I don't get offended when people get it
wrong. After all, I'm proud to be called by
either name. As for social gaffes they can
and often do— happen to both my husband
and me. More often than not, they simply
provide comical moments. Lately my husband
has been getting mail and calls for Mr.
Colino, and so far he's just played along. In fact,
being something of a feminist, he seems to
enjoy it in a perverse sort of way. Or maybe he
just gets a kick out of having the tables turned.
Either way, he hasn't corrected them yet. II
Stacey Colino is a freelance writer based in San Francisco.