While reading The Myth of Free Will by Cris Evatt, I was unbelieving.  What do you think of a statement that “compared to what you’d expect by chance alone, there are more people named Ken who moved to live in Kentucky, Florences who moved to Florida, and more named Lois who moved to St. Louis; there are more Denises  who became dentists and Lauras and Lawrences who become lawyers, compared with people with names that do not share letters with these occupations.  If your first or last name begins with ‘H’, you are more likely than chance to own a hardware store, and if one of your names begin with ‘R’ you are more likely to own a roofing company, with ‘C’ a computer company and with ‘T’ a travel business.”

What folderol!  Just to be sure, I checked out my names and places and occupations.  No luck.

Then I realized that my middle name is Stone, and that my daughter who just visited had brought me a container of…rocks?…stones?…she had collected in Washington State along a rock-covered beach, because she knew I liked and collected natural things, like stones…