Pen names, etc.
I got a computerized
horoscope back in 1970, roughly a year before I decided to learn
astrology for myself. It said that Neptune conjunct the MC would
incline me to take a pen name. I never have, but I needed something
on Tylnet to distinguish myself from Don McBroom. I got so hurt when
people would say how smart and wonderful Don is, and then realize
that they didn't mean me.
A co-worker started
addressing me as "Donbee" after I would sign forwarded
jokes as "Don B." So to Tyl students, I am Donbee, and Don
McBroom now uses Don Mc. Oddly, neither of us is named "Donald".
My late wife's birth name
was Loreta Gene McLearen. Loreta is pronounced with a long E. So my
wife was "Reta Gene" to her family and "Lori" to
her friends. In the late 1960s, she actually knew the Beatles and
had an affair with George Harrison behind Patti Boyd's back. So she
later changed her name, legally, to Georgeanne Harrison. Then she
married me and took Borkowski as a surname. And much, much later
changed her name back to Lori McClearen.
I should add that during
the time she knew the Beatles, she told Paul McCartney that in
America, “traffic wardens” were called "meter maids".
Paul thought that was so funny, that he teasingly called her "Reta
Gene the Meter Maid" and from that hook, a song was born.
Names seem to be a
function of both the first and third houses, with each contributing
different attributes of names.
Don Borkowski
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You are just a wealth of knowledge... and full of tidbits of information that make me giddy! Now I can't get that song out of my mind... and I'm thinking about my degrees of separation from the Beatles! There is so much I didn't know about you Don. I'm thrilled to have found your blog, and am on a hunt for your book right now! All my best... Deb
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