Sedonya (is adopted)

One of four first cousins named after places in the American West because their mothers (four sisters from a large New England family) all dreamed of hunky cowboys.  Her mother’s spelling of the Arizona town was a little off, but Sedonya likes the way her name sounds… even when it was loudly shouted by the nuns trying to get attention back into the classroom. Years later, all that day-dreaming paid off, as she designed several labor-saving procedures for pediatric nursing.  Today in retirement she regularly visits children’s hospitals, where her colorful pigtails never fail to bring smiles and giggles.

(a PJH story)