In a Name

I didn’t want anything more than four syllables. Nor anything too obvious à la “Leslie’s Travel Blog,” yawn.

A sundog is an optical atmospheric phenomenon that happens when ice crystals refract the Sun’s light, sayeth Wikipedia.

Sundog was also the name of my parent’s sailboat when I was a wee Alaskan princess. We sailed out of Seward. Paddling the dinghy, watching porpoises swim alongside our bow, squishing seaweed on the beach, and seeing a seagull doo doo on my father’s face were terrific formative experiences. Resurrection Bay is where I learned to be curious about the world. And Sundog was the vessel of my discovery.

So that’s how I named my blog. Obscure enough?