What's In A Name? A Rizz By Any Other...

Okay, peeps. I've been tossing this around in my head for months--changing the name of the blog. I think it's a 'must-do'.

Here's the backstory:

I started this blog in 2009, calling it 'Rizz's World'. It was just supposed to be a place for me to write little essays, poems and short stories. I never really meant for anyone to ever see it, really. But creating the blog was free, it allowed me to 'decorate' and choose backgrounds, fonts, add pictures and play around doing something I enjoy. I also thought if something ever happened to me, my kids would have a little 'online keepsake' of me. But since I have a short attention span and get bored easily, 'Rizz's World' languished in cyberspace for several years.

In (I think) 2013, I decided to revive the blog and center it around my prolific jewelry and bead-making activities. It was painful, but I actually dumped most of the writing I had posted and recreated the blog as 'PhantasmaGlass', focusing on my jewelry and beads.

True to form, my SAS (short attention span) kicked in eventually, I got bored with trying to come up with jewelry related posts and I started writing again about other things. Now the name of the blog makes very little sense. Okay. It makes NO sense.

So I have decided to change the name AGAIN.  Gonna be 'Rizz's World' or some variation of that (although 'A Rizz By Any Other Name...' cracks me up. But then I'd have to constantly explain it over and over...)

What is this 'Rizz' nonsense? I married my husband in 2003 and changed my last name to his. Steve, a guy I worked with at the time, couldn't for the life of him pronounce my new last name correctly. So he started calling me Rizzles, which was supposed to be a weird combination of my last name and of Rizzo (from Grease, because Steve thought I looked like Stockard Channing in the role of Betty Rizzo). It caught on throughout the workplace and I actually started answering to it! So Rizz is just short for Rizzles.

So don't be too surprised at some upcoming alterations---change is good!
Till next time,

"I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle, or a skunk cabbage." ~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables