Posts Tagged ‘changing your name’

This post is part of a series called, “Real People, Real Names,” a compendium of stories and pictures about people and their names. Names are basically one or two-word stories. When we see a person’s name, we paint an idea of what to expect before we even meet them. And each person has their own version of a story about …

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Step into the light all you folks who have secretly (or not so secretively) wished for a different name! Now there's a day where we all can change our names. April 9 is designated as the national Name Yourself Day! Even Facebook has a page (or two) in honor of this celebratory event. Now people like …

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I'm an advocate for people changing their name, but I just read an article by Eve Tachmincioglu that caused me to question that. She described a story about Larry Whitten, owner of the Whitten Hotel in Taos, NM. Last fall, he he required that employees with Hispanic-sounding names change their names so that they sounded more …

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The city of Topeka, Kansas (located about 1 hour's drive west of Kansas City) just agreed to change its name to Google, Kansas. This is part of their bid to entice Google to build a "super-fast, experimental broadband network inside its borders." Mayor Bill Bunten issued the proclamation and the city will now be known as …

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Robert Trebor has a face you know you've seen before. It makes sense because he's been a character actor in movies like "52 Pick-up", "Talk Radio", and "The Devil's Rejects." He also played the role of "Salmoneus" in the TV shows "Xena" and "Hercules." The thing is, I don't think I've seen those movies and …

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