October 28, 1995: My daughter wanted to be a loader truck for Halloween

Thirty years ago today

            On Saturday I made my daughter’s Halloween costume. She wanted to go out as a “woader twuck” (loader truck) so I cut a cardboard box to make it look like a front shovel. I started calling my daughter “True”. After she was born I’d selected the names “Christian” and “True” for her but thought of “True” as her middle name. But her mother didn’t want to be reminded of me and used “True” for her first name. When it became clear that my daughter preferred “True” I started using it.