Comments on: is your porn name spiritual? it is if you say so!

By: aiisa g

aiisa g — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:16:47 +0000

yes!!!!! People are always asking me if my name, my birth name, is a spiritual name. Apparently something to do with all the vowels. And I am am eve grateful that while it is indeed a very unique name, it is my name and I own it.

By: KJF

KJF — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:42:08 +0000

Bravo.

By: Kristin

Kristin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:30:07 +0000

My mother has had a name thing going for quite some time. She had her maiden name, then my fathers name at age 20 (divorced 25 years later), then she kept my fathers name even though she married another man because she said it was her name and didn't want to change it. The 2nd husband finally got her to change it to his after a few years. They got divorced a few years after that. Now she couldn't really go back to firsthusbands name so she decided to make up a new last name. She is very interested in the Mayan Calendar so she chose White Bridger, taken from the 13-Moon Natural Time Calendar (Mayan Calendar), Cimi -- It was a part of her glyph. She has told me that she has always spelled out each letter as she wrote her name until she took on the name Bridger. She uses white as her middle name.

A name is important and it is so true - you have to feel good in your name. I would have totally chosen my own name as my spiritual name, too.

My husbands last name is Legg. I wasn't a Legg. I married late and I told him that I know who I am and I wasn't going to change it now. Thankfully he didn't disagree and that wasn't a bone of contention like it was for my mother. So I am who my parents named me & they did a great job.

By: Nosey Lurker

Nosey Lurker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:21:02 +0000

Joe Smith - aka Joseph Smith founder of the Mormon religion... what a name to choose.

By: Danielle LaPorte

Danielle LaPorte — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:34:51 +0000

re: your porn name...I'm guesing with a name like Brain Limberlost, you's be starring in some very high-minded XXX flicks.

By: QuiteLight

QuiteLight — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:04:03 +0000

It took me years to grow into Katherine, but it fits a lot better than Kathy. It's odd, though, I care so little about it. People call me Kathy & sometimes I barely realize they're talking to me. It's not like they use nick-names either, only my family & partner use those.

But my porn name... Brain Limberlost... now I'm all distracted picturing what SHE'D be like.

By: alligator kate

alligator kate — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:02:52 +0000

rose is beautiful. Your story about being a young teenager and this topic in general, reminds me a bit of Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding, when "Old Frankie" becomes "F. Jasmine."

By: candis

candis — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:01:03 +0000

xoxo

By: Linda Borland-Fitzgerald

Linda Borland-Fitzgerald — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:52:51 +0000

I've been saddled with and chosen a variety of names in my lifetime, but hadn't realized it until I read your blog on the subject.

I was born Linda Rose Borland (illegitimately). At age 10, after escaping my brutal father in the middle of the night, my mother assigned my sister and I a new surname (long story but it turned out to be her first husband's name and my sister's biological dad). I always hated my middle name, Rose so avoided telling anyone.

At age 19 I worked alongside someone who used to talk about his friend, Terry and his difficult relationship with a spoiled rich girl. After listening to the stories over a short period, one day I asked what Terry's last name was. "Fitzgerald," he answered. I repeated it in my head, "Fitzgerald. Linda Fitzgerald. Hmm..." We have been married 41 years this May.

Only recently have I decided to like my birth name even though technically my parents never married, and since embarking on a serious, writing career, I now use Borland-Fitzgerald.

When I was a young teenager, I went by the name of Quiinn O'Hara and spoke with an Irish accent to strangers. I have no idea why.

When I was simply entertaining the idea of writing, many years ago, I landed on the name Leslie MacHeraldt (Irish Gaelic for Fitzgerald).

This no longer suits me either, and I may consider something altogether different.

And finally, I no longer cringe when I tell people my middle name is Rose.

By: alligator kate

alligator kate — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:01:33 +0000

There is a book I absolutely love called the Secret Universe of Names: the Dynamic Interplay of Names and Destiny by Roy Feinson. In the preface he writes, "(this book) proposes the idea that words evolve into our language and culture because the very sounds in these words evoke a particular emotional resonance in humans..... The reactions to these sounds in our own names can affect our self-image and the expectations others have of us." As a someone who writes poetry, I tend to think there is something to this, and it makes a fun cocktail table book....