The administrator of the Cedars of Zion nursing home in Portland, Oregon was Richard Fuks. Imagine the awkward silences he gets when he answers the phone. “Um, hello Mr. um, mumble mumble.”

My maiden name was Sinning. There was a Sinning who was a minister and was the head of the Alchoholic Beverage commission in Iowa. The former head of the Narcotics Division of the Amsterdam police department is Paul Sinning. My maternal grandmother’s maiden name was Sinner.

-Mary