Suburban Goddess

I married into this last name… it is not my maiden name.  I thought about changing it back to my maiden name, but since Alex carries it and my business is MACLAUGHLIN Studios, I just gave up and resigned to my fate.  (I actually considered dropping my last name all together and just being KRISTIE.  But that’s horribly pretentious, and it would take too damn long to explain anyway.  And I’m lazy.)

I’ve had this name for almost seven years, and it never fails to amuse me how people butcher it.  It makes answering my telephone rather easy; if they can’t pronounce it, I hang up.

“Ms. McGloglin?”

(click)

“Ms. MacLachlan?”

(click)

“Ms. MCGLOGGGG…”

(click)

“Ms. McLAFLIN?”

(click)

Even people who know me can’t pronounce it.  Last time I went home, my grandmother gave me a check for Alex.  And that’s all she wrote in the name field.  Alex.

“I can’t ever remember what your last name is,” she tells me.

(blink)

So how DO you pronounce it?  It’s MIC-LOF-LIN.  And when you try to spell it, it’s a Big Mac at the beginning, with a Laugh in the middle, followed by a lin. Because since I’ve adopted this name, there has been quite a lot of sorrow…

… but quite a lot of Laughs as well.

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