I have recently come up on some personal/political obstacles that will require me to change the name under which I post here on Ms. JD.  As Jessie would say, the personal is political. Over the last few months, I have gotten a lot more personal in my posts than I intended (which is good, I think) so I am going to have to make my identity a little more cryptic so that I maintain more control over who knows what I am writing.  I am not ashamed of anything that I've written and I whole-heartedly believe in what I've said.  Additionally, I've written every piece with the intention of sharing in a way that will help others be successful or with the intention of getting a conversation going about an aspect of women in the legal profession.  However, there is such a thing as too much personal information that can interfere with the more formal relationships we have in life.  Kudos to those women who post here under their real names!