My #4 daughter is “Lacy McKay”
We didn’t think specifically about the last name as a middle name thing, just liked the sound of it.
I have no idea what my real name is. I was adopted in San Antonio in 1962 and the State of Texas has my original birth certificate, but I’m not allowed to see it. They used fake names for unwed mothers and their babies back then, but the rules are so stupid, I can’t even find out what my fake name is. But, I mean, it’s what my mother put on my birth certificate, so is that really a fake name, or the real one?
My adoptive parents named me Steven Craig, so that’s my legal name, but they always just called me Craig. I always wondered what happened to Steven, but they never would say. Whenever I asked what about Steven they just changed the subject. So I’ve always wondered if my birthmother might have named me Steven and my adoptive parents added “Craig.”
But they died nearly 30 years ago, so I can’t ask them. My birthmother is still alive north of Dallas, but she won’t talk to me, so I can’t ask her either.
So maybe I’m Steven, maybe I’m Craig, maybe I’m whatever is hidden in the records in Austin. Or just a combination of all those, I guess.
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I just know you are awesome!
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Names are useful for keeping people separate, but they’re certainly not destiny. I was a little pile of tissue and genes and blood before anyone ever dubbed me “Devin”, and I could just as easily have been something different.
It’s meaningful perhaps that we generally talk about our names in the same way we talk about possessions…we say ”my name is” rather than “I am”.
Unless we are a particular burning bush from the OT, of course.
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Not gonna lie, I thought about names and ancestors a lot last year while I was recovering from heart surgery.
I know it’s pointless, but my goal is life now is to find out the fake name my mother gave me on my birth certificate. And what she called herself, for that matter.
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Sounds like a promising start for a PI story.
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Being the 8th of nine children and the 6th of six boys, it’s no wonder may mother middle named me after the (now) patron saint of lepers. She made me a pariah from birth!
Sounds OK to me!
I just don’t understand who would slap “Campbell” on a beautiful baby girl. Dull and joyless, it would seem to me. Of course, I only have sons, so what do I know?
Oh man. You should look up the history of Clan Campbell sometime. One of the most powerful and widely hated clans in Scottish history.
Freeman a 2 run homer against Joe Kelly. Braves up 2-0 in the first.
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Brings a fuckin’ tear to my eye.
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Fuck Joe Kelly
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I like this premise.
Let’s expand on it.
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What do the dumbly dangling hands mean that the Dodgers do? Ball sacks to either side of me?
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Who can possibly keep up with the panoply of pantomimes in the modern game? Every team from (at least) high school all the way to the Majors has something.
Homer, single, homer and the Dodgers take the lead 3-2.
Boo
Fried is fried.
My fear is this is the Braves last chance. Yes, they’re up 3-1, but if they don’t win tonight, they get a fresh Scherzer and Buehler.
Absolutely.
Cut the head off the snake.
Get while the gettin is good.
Don’t play with your food.
Release the laser sharks.
Don’t start dialoging.