Dear readers, Ms. Jeannie needs your help! Her resident deer needs a name. He’s been a handsome part of the Ms. Jeannie landscape for almost a year now, quietly adding some elegance and dignity to the library where he lives. But this morning he woke up on the wrong side of the shelf. He was upset, and most rightly so.
For close to 365 days he’s just been called Deer. That was fine in the beginning but now he wants a proper name. It seems Deer will just not do any longer. Upon hearing this, Ms. Jeannie racked her brain. She couldn’t come up with anything creative except for George Eliot, which Deer reminded her was the masculine pen name for a lady writer. He wants something manly. Rhett Butler she suggested next. But they both knew that wasn’t quite right either. What then? Ernest, F. Scott, William? Tolstoy, Kipling, King? There are a million names, a billion names, centuries worth of names, but Ms. Jeannie couldn’t think of one that seemed fitting. What could a good name be?
This is where you step in, dear readers, with one of your super sensational suggestions. Deer has fabulous taste and a shining disposition. He’s statuesque in style with a head for poetry and a heart for adventure. Before he met Ms. Jeannie he lived in an attic for so long he forgot his own purpose and turned the color of dust. Now he grazes everyday on the great words of great writers and acts as shepard to a growing flock of books. Now he wants to be called something captivating… something big… something bold. Now he wants a name of literary proportions. Now, now, now he says!
Please help! Contribute a name in the comments section below. The one Deer loves the best will win a prize and a place in his heart forever and ever.
In the Vintage Kitchen: Where History Comes To Eat 
hmmm, I’m thinking…
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Thanks so much for the extra attention!
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Bret Harte – an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush (manly men)
Brett is my late brother’s name and, of course, a hart is a deer!
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Oh my! This is going to be one tough decision! Thank you so much for your suggestion!
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Stating the obvious…how about “Buck”?
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Ohhhhh so very masculine!
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she is really cute! i think is Emma (:
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Thanks for your suggestion! This is going to be one tough choice!
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Pearl Buck!!!
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One of Deer’s most favorite authors:)
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Vinnie’s Son… ;0 (from Rod Kathy’s husband)
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Pls excuse my husband Rod, that was a joke, “venison”.
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Ha! Such a sense of humor:)
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That’s pretty clever, my dear!
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I think Hemingway would be perfect!
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Definitely a mostly manly suggestion!
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How about Belletristic — Belle for short!
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Oh such a creative name!
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Val. The white stag is mythic in so many cultures…but I thought immediately of Finland — but I can’t pronounce the Finnish version of white deer — so Val is the shortened version. Falls short on the literary front, but it suits him 🙂
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