Namely Marly

Posts Tagged ‘choices’

My Left Hand

About a year ago I started an experiment. I began writing with my left hand. I started this on a Friday morning on another one of our long treks to North Dakota. When you have a 13-hour drive ahead of you, it's no telling what you'll do to entertain yourself! You can see the results in this picture; it was …

From Barry to Barack

If you doubt the impact that changing a name can have on a life, consider Barack Obama. Yes, it’s true that his given name at birth was Barack. So how, you may ask, did he change his name? When he was a child everyone referred to him as Barry, the same derivative of Barack that his father chose. …

Rebirth

I have a little glass container at home that holds shards of broken bird eggs. Mostly robins’ eggs because that is what we have the most of in our neighborhood. My husband and I go out for daily walks with our dogs and on the glorious occasion when I see one of these partial treasures, I carefully cradle it on …