Hush, Hush Somebody's Calling My Names?

My dearest, Gloria “Tootie Jo" Brown Frasier, I thought I had to deal with a lot of names and the baggage that's sometimes attached to them.

Check me out (ex-husbands included). Stanice "Stacey" Lucretia Anderson-Grandy-Smith-Jenkins almost -Ghaffar a/k/a Kemba Ali Intersar (which means "Faithful Until the Victory"). What victory? Not a clue. Confusing to you? Confusion was a way of life for me.

One day I made a prayerful decision and boldly declared to the world on the outgoing message on my answering machine, “All I want for Christmas is my birth name back.” By that Christmas I had paid the DC Courts over $150 and gone through the two-month process to become once and for all who I was birthed to be – the semi-unadulterated -- Stanice Lucretia Anderson.

My Dearest Gloria, it feels like a place called home. Finally, I’s free now!

© 2006, Stanice Anderson, Inspirational Speaker, Writer/Book Coach and Author, www.stanice.com