[Ads-l] ADS-L Digest - 7 Jan 2018 to 8 Jan 2018 (#2018-9)

[Shawnee Moon]

> From:    W Brewer 
> 
> Shawnee Moon = female?
> I had always pictured SM as The Man in the Moon munching on green cheese
> with Governor Moonbeam. Now I see Shaw née Moon. From the O'Pshaw clan?


Aren’t WE full of Jameson? ;-)

Shawnee like the Native American tribe, or Shawnee Mission, Kansas or Shawnee, Oklahoma. But no Native American in me.

Warped Irish (like Sean Connery). My neé was Cavnar, I married, divorced, and since I was changing my name, I got rid of Cavnar because of the (cough) great admiration I had for my male genetic donor. Everybody with the last name Cavnar is related, (not that it’s common), one Irishman who moved to the states decided Cavanaugh was too long, and shortened it. All Cavnars have him as our common gggggg grandfather. (Correct number of greats unknown without getting a book out.)
County Cavan in Ireland is from whence he came, a descendant of King of Ireland (with more greats than I care to type, hundreds if not a thousand years back.) So I’m a princess, ha! In biker leathers. 

The rest of me is a hash of Turkish, Polish, Ashkenazi Jew, Norwegian, Spanish, English and various spices. 

Moon was the surname I chose and legally adopted, from ‘lunatic’ (that hasn’t become obvious?) and I also happen to love that dusty satellite. I wasn’t going out and do great things and have my father’s name to bear. No. Now I just live around bears and don’t do much at all, great or otherwise.

Shawnee Holiday Moon

Female, 56, living in NW Wyoming 
~Former long distance walker
~Cross country motorcyclist 
~Attempts Mandolin, Mandriola and Ukulele
~Artist
~Author
~Mother of two
~Keeper of Insane Feline 

Mailed from the Moon 🌜


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