What's in a name?

Apparently a lot.  I was all steamed up and ready to get going after a morning of straightening up the house complete with a very lengthy internal dialogue, or monologue really, but then got stumped creating this blog by Step 2: naming the damned thing.

I like catchy names of blogs--my most recent find is "Baby on Bored", but I also admire those of my friends such as "Amy's Bitch Mobile", "Luminous Lotus" or "Kendra's Moral Monster".  The title gives you a sense of either who the person is, who they want to be, or just what they'll be discussing in their posts.  I don't really know what I want to talk about, other than my views on things in general, and I suppose one of the reasons I'm picking back up with blogging (here is the MySpace graveyard in which I laid that blog to rest) is that I don't really know who I am anymore after all my free time has been devoted to motherhood.  Or Facebook.  Whatever.

See, even my MySpace site name was http://www.myspace.com/yourfavoriteyogini.  Your favorite yogini?  I really thought of myself as that steeped in yoga that I put it in my website title?  I suppose a regular practice of 4-6 times weekly even through residency, preceded by regular hour long bus/subway (yes, I needed both) trips into the city for classes at random NYC studios, might have qualified me as a yogini.  But since having Elena, my practice has withered.

I could have called my blog something like "Dr. Jessie, Anti-Medicine Woman" in reference to my career with its special bent on integrative medicine and my preference for giving good ol' lifestyle changes a fair chance before medications when appropriate.  But that sounded boring.  I do love my job, but who really wants to define themselves based on their career?

My latest (as in past year and a half) has been breastfeeding, but I couldn't come up with something catchy enough (though this product line is seductively practical and awesomely named).  Plus it just seemed too restrictive, and the one thing a nursing mom hates is restrictiveness.

So there it is.  My Opinionatrix: My deep thoughts on stuff.

But then I got started thinking about ground rules for The Opinionatrix.  For instance, on my prior blog, I didn't think much of throwing in the odd curse word if it served the purpose of making a point, or adding a bit of zing to a particularly heated rant.  But this blog is all public and stuff, so I guess I'll be more metered.  I also vented a bit about people in my old blog.... as in specific people who weren't my friends and were therefore amenable to being complained about.  But I don't really want to do that, either, because I'd like for some of my posts to be helpful and maybe even intelligently written--you know, something that you'd reference for either a good recipe or home remedy for a cold or something.

Anyway.  We'll see how it goes.