Hallie Sue

When I was a kid, I didn't do a very good job of telling people my name -- Halley Suitt (pronounced "suit" like a suit of clothes) and often as not, they thought my name was Hallie Sue -- some ante-bellum Southern girl -- not the Northern Yankee me. It used to drive me crazy.

These days though, I think I could really cotton to a Southern belle name like Hallie Sue. I think any time I'm south of say ... New Jersey ... I'm going to introduce myself as Hallie Sue. Y'all.