My name is Krista Jae-Elrena Hiatt.
My maiden name was Roy. I am still pretty proud of that name
and very happy that I wore it so proudly for so long, but it seems strange that
I was ever once Krista Roy. Because now I am so very much Krista Hiatt. I used
to wonder about that with my mom—did she ever really get used to being Roy and
not Norton? Or was Norton always accidentally slipping off her tongue onto her
signature lines? How long would it take me to get used to not Roy? I could only
ever picture myself as Roy. But now I know. It isn't hard to be not Roy because
I get to be Hiatt instead.
