Your world was made up of things sweet and good My world could never fit in, I wish it could — From Miller and West Jennifer Government In 2003, Max Barry wrote Jennifer Government, a satricial thriller about the United States taking over the Western Hemisphere. It received rave reviews including significant recognition from the New York […]
Jennifer Cavalleri and the promise of Jennifers
An article by writer Jennifer Graham appeared in Friday’s Boston Globe, The Rise and Fall of Jennifers. It’s a terrific piece about the once-youthful name now in rapid decline. Not only has it fallen completely off most-popular-names lists, but it’s starting to land, albeit only occasionally, in the obituaries. Here is an excerpt: “…But Jennifer was sneaking up on them. By 1969, when Lopez […]
The Name Jennifer goes the way of Myrtle
As you might have guessed by my URL, I was born in the Year of our Lord 1967. It was a fine year. Vietnam ended, sort of, but, I digress. Despite my name, the year 1967 was not a popular year for the name Jennifer. But, lord-have-mercy, by the time I was 15, there were dozens of […]