Nicknames

I have never had one. At least not one that stuck, or that people used to my face. I have given a few -- most recently "PBS," which is a tag I've stuck to a colleague in sports who has an impressive gentility streak.

I was "Yankee" in camp, a name I borrowed from a sailboat, of all things. I really loved sailing camp.

Wait -- I kinda do have a nickname .... "Mama"! And I think it will stick.