Just to clarify right here and now "Willow of the Wood" has been my blogging name since February 2007 and I reserve the right to use this name. If your name is Eleanor, June, Mary-Lou Who and you choose to use the name Willow, go ahead. But please please please, don't go and call your blog "Willow of the Wood" as someone is already using it!
My parents blessed me at birth with the name Willow. Since my last name was Atwood and we lived in what most would consider to be "the bush", the name began to evolve. My whole life was spent despising the name Willow.
Here I am here practicing my blogging capabilities with my BFF Sharon. Oh, and Colin & Justin were coming over to decorate later.
Other times my parents would dress my brother and I up in matching navy outfits and take us outside and call us tree names to see if we would respond: WILLOW! BIRCH! TAMARACK!
oh and they didn't cut the grass before the shot.
But the truth of the matter is this: Willow is my middle name. Atwood literally means "of the Wood". So, there you have it. And if you take that one step further and delve deep into my family tree you will find Robin Hood and the other merry men. As Wode (or Wood) would have been pronounced "Hood" and Robin was "of the Hood". A history lesson all rolled into my blog post for the day!
Enjoy your long weekend CANADA!
signed, the willow
what an interesting history lesson! I was wondering where Willow came from...
ReplyDeleteI can't believe someone is using your blog name! They certainly can't have any connection to it like you do!
Have a fantastic weekend!
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