It's Not Just You, It's a System

It's not just that system over there, though...

This is a post about naming. As we’ve moved to a new town, we get asked quite a bit about how we came up with our children’s names. “He has a family name.” “His middle name is an homage to our years in Scotland.” “One of her middle names is after my PhD supervisor.” “This is the virtue we hope he embodies.” We not only name based on future hopes or to …