Steve Inskeep... Kai Rysdal... Dina Temple-Raston... There's a hypnotic, even totemic quality to the names of National Public Radio personalities. What about you? If you reported in the field for Morning Edition, how would you sign off? Thanks to the efforts of Lianablog (linked from the NPR culture blog Monkey See), there's an easy way for you to build your very own NPR-worthy name.

Heres how it works: You take your middle initial and insert it somewhere into your first name. Then you add on the smallest foreign town youve ever visited.

Genius! From New York, this is Molelie Ross-on-Wye. Back to you...

Mollie Wilson O’​Reilly is editor-at-large and columnist at Commonweal.

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