Nicknames . . .

 

in a recent post

i mentioned several nicknames

i have had

suzy pickle   falinda   pee hen   miss pheasant

lynner   slick   flash  father  putz

 

some of you asked

the where and why of the names

susy pickle and falinda
were names given me by my dad



my maiden name being peacock
led me to be subject to
pee hen
I remember it being carved into
one of my wooden school desks
back when i was in fifth grade

there were those who had
great fun saying this name

in my early practice teaching days
i was
miss peacock
and often
miss pheasant
was substituted



college days i became
lynner
to some of my college friends

attending college where my parents and brother attended
and being a daughter of an outstanding athlete
with the last name peacock
and the nickname
slick

i too
became
slick peacock

 

and marrying a

gordon

the summer after i graduated college

 

i was sometimes called

flash gordon

 

during my hospital working days in the eighties
i was a protestant lay chaplain
in a catholic hospital system
(this was a first for the mercy sisters)

i eventually became the
director of the pastoral care services

father
became my name by the
doctors, nurses, employees
quite by accident

a thank you had been sent to the city newspaper
from a family thanking
Father Larry and Lynne Gordon
for the care given to their family
during their family emergency at the hospital

problem was
Father Larry
the priest, then director
became Larry
and
Lynne Gordon
became
Father Lynne

(photo with chaplains from my director days)



i have been known for years to
fiddle with this or that
create, alter, ponder over
and 
putz for hours on
flowers, landscape, household, decorating,
food, dinners, entertaining

and have become known now as


putz

thanks to this guy

 

 

and that my friends is the end
of my nickname story

SLAINTE'