Author: mariacatalinaegan

Quentin means fifth and in Spanish there is a saying ” No hay quinto malo” there is no such thing as a bad fifth, so in larger families the fifth born is indeed considered one of great fortune. The most famous Quentin is surely filmmaker   Quentin Tarantino . I am not great at super violent films, so I have missed several of his.

Do you have a favorite Quentin Tarantino movie? I am such a WW II history buff that Inglorious Bastards is my favorite, and as I said, I have chosen not to see many of his films.

ST PETER

I was raised Catholic in the Catholic Church ST PETER is the patron saint of fishermen.  Peter I am sure we all know means stone. As a child I came up with variants of the name Pedro for my dolls, all my babies had the name Peter, which is funny in that I had no relatives by said name and I was not allowed to watch much TV so it was not influenced by Fred Flintstone who in dubbed Spanish cartoons was PEDRO PICAPIEDRA ( Peter the stone crusher) .

OFELIA or OPHELIA such a lovely name. there is something so  feminine  according to some of the sites I have used for name meanings Ophelia means help. but  BEHIND A NAME Meaning & History . OPHELIA is derived from Greek οφελος (ophelos) meaning “help”. This name was probably created by the 15th-century poet Jacopo Sannazaro for a character in his poem ‘Arcadia’. It was borrowed by Shakespeare for his play ‘Hamlet’ (1600), in which it belongs to Hamlet‘s lover who eventually goes insane and drowns herself. In spite of this, the name has been used since the 19th century.

Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet

Narcissus is a beautiful youth in Greek mythology who pines away for love of his own reflection and is then turned into the narcissus flower . From which we all get narcissism and our tendencies to be most vain!  I believe we all have it maybe not about our looks, but surely everyone has that one thing… cooking? Writing? Athletic Prowess…something that makes us feel so special we may well call it vanity.

As you may  know my name is MARIA CATALINA  and I love both , I usually go  by my middle name but Maria is one I love as well.

Do you like your given name? If not would you change it?

MARIA The meaning of the Semitic-rooted name is uncertain, but it may originally be an Egyptian name, probably derived from mry “beloved” or mr “love” (“eminent lady” or “beloved lady”). The meaning of the Latin-rooted name is similarly ambiguous, possibly deriving from mare (“sea” in Latin), maris (“male”), or the name of the god Mars.

Lucas means Light .Use it as Luke, or Luka. I find that light is often the meaning of names I like. in Spanish the word for light is LUZ and it is a popular name for women.

When I moved to France in 1977 people love to say Americaine?  Do you like LUCKY LUKE  ? I had never heard of it. , have you discovered this Belgian fun?

Lucky Luke is a Belgian comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Maurice De Bevere, better known as Morris, and for one period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to “shoot faster than his shadow”. His name is inspired by that of Luciano Locarno, an Italian American sheriff who lived between 1860 and 1940.