I’ve been asked about the name of this blog. Why “Molly Flew the Coop”? For those of you who haven’t known me since the days of big hair, pegged jeans and penny loafers, my maiden name is Cooper. I was Molly Cooper for the first 32 years of my life. Although my bank card read “Jolly Cooper” for a while, which was kind of awesome.
So I’ve been “Coop” for the majority of my life. I’m still Coop to a lot of people and I LOVE it. So much so, that it was really hard for me to give up my last name when I got married. In fact, my first choice of names for my son was Cooper. Toby’s first choice was Angus. You can read about that little naming dilemma here, but my main beef (I apologize, I couldn’t help myself) that I failed to mention in the article is that Angus is one letter away from anus. Who names their kid something that close to “butthole”? Unacceptable.
I swear there’s a point somewhere in this post.
After 8.5 years of sitting in a cube designing parts for semiconductor test equipment and semi-trucks, I realized I needed to escape. Fly the coop if you will. So I switched careers to become a freelance writer and grabbed the domain mollyflewthecoop.com for my website. You get it? Do ya? Huh? It includes the image of escape while still holding on to some tie to the name Coop. THE CLEVERNESS IS BLOWING YOUR MIND RIGHT NOW.
I failed miserably at keeping the website up-to-date with my latest articles and whatnot so it has since been stripped of any useful information. My plan is to move this blog over to mollyflewthecoop.com eventually. Unfortunately, I’m what you might (absolutely) call technologically challenged. My cousin Beth was going to help me last weekend but we were distracted by beer, seven kids in the pool trying to drown each other and my husband walking by with two chainsaws. P.S. NOT A GOOD SIGN.
Anyway, that’s how it all came about. Fascinating isn’t it? I’m surprised no one’s begged me for the rights to write an authorized biography.
I always wondered the orgins of Mollyflewthecoop, and now I know, great blog, and I really enjoyed and had not read your article about naming your son, very funny, sure glad you chose Roper, which along with Cooper, were my favorites!
Roper fits him :) Names are funny…I should do a blog on past pets’ names. They’re a hoot!
Chainsaws? Was he juggling at the time? Hmm…
Not at the time…that came later ;)
WOW I loved this one. I was laughing out loud. I am so glad that you pointed out that one 1 small but important letter to toby.
Never have been a fan of the name Angus… perhaps that’s why. Love Roper though, very original. And as a mother whose daughter’s name is Anderson (in Australia Anderson is not considered a first name for either gender!) I am a bit of a fan of unusual.
I love the name Anderson for a girl!! This next generation of kids in our family has unusual names. Hawkeye, Tiger, Roper…and they all seem to have a double-dose of personality. Related?
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