Tiberius

On March 27, 2010, Oliver William Boyle was born to my son Chris and his wife, Colleen. That was the day I found out that the baby boy whose birth we'd been awaiting would be called Oliver. It's a good name. A strong name. But it's not what my husband, younger son and I had been calling him. To us throughout most of the prenatal period, he was Tiberius.

When Chris and Colleen had decided to keep the name a secret, we needed something to call the baby-to-be. So his uncle-to-be suggested the middle name of Star Trek's James T. Kirk: Tiberius. And it stuck.

It's quite possible that Oliver will still be Tiberius to some of us when he's old enough to find it annoying.


(Photo: Tiberius with his Uncle John Michael)