Mon, 09:52: My default personal email signature has read "Matthew McQuilkin, American Treasure" for ages. Since late 2010. I have long had zero desire to change it; it brings me joy. It's clearly done as a lark, or it should be clear anyway.
Today was a first: one the many recipients long included in my photo travelogues I send from my Gmail account, after travels or other photogenic events in my life, actually asked—in earnest, it seemed—if American Treasure is my "preferred name." They even added, "I'd like to address you by your preference." And I was just like: Wait. What?
Maybe they didn't see my full name with a backdrop of rainbow colors written clearly right above it?
I was stunned anyone might think I seriously want to be addressed directly as "American Treasure," evidently instead of my birth name. I'm all for wokeness but this is a little over the top. Settle down.
Mon, 19:34: If you want proof that I have gotten old I have discovered the absolute joy of the cast iron skillet and now hurl insults and epithets at all the other useless inferior pans in the house
