A Rose By Any Other Name:

Confessions of a Name-Giver and a Name-Changer

I’m a namer. I named three humans. I attached to each newborn bundle, a signaturedesigned to carry them from infancy to old-age; a handle with which to address them and distinguish them from one another. I then launched them into a social world populated by other people, critters, places and things signified by the names given, at one time or…