My Executive Order $$$$$$$$$$.......... by Julianna Rowe

 My Executive Order J$$$$$$$$$$.......by Julianna Rowe

Somewhere along the way, politics changed my signature. I realize that sounds like a sentence requiring further explanation, but because I have noticed Donald Trump’s signature, which to me appeared to consist mostly of tall, dramatic spikes marching across the page. Whatever anyone thinks of the man politically, and apparently everyone thinks something, I found the signature hilarious. There seemed to be an actual letter at the beginning and then the pen simply took off for the mountains. So I started doing it too.    

My name begins with a J, so now I make the J reasonably recognizable before abandoning the alphabet altogether. After that it is basically Jllllllllllllll Up, down, up, down, a row of aggressive little spikes that could represent my name, an executive order, or the results of an EKG performed during an argument. And it will bring in the flow of the gold and cash.  Its energy is all!

I openly tell people I sign like Trump now. My reasoning, entirely tongue-in-cheek, is that the man has spent a lifetime surrounded by controversy, made an enormous amount of money, and repeatedly emerged from situations that would have flattened an ordinary person. I am not making a political endorsement with my pen. I am trying to get some of that apparent Teflon quality into my checking account.

Someone told me I sign as though I were about to slap a gold-plated executive order on somebody’s kitchen counter. That did not discourage me. If anything, it made the signature permanent.

Politics is one of those subjects where half the room can hear a joke and laugh while the other half begins preparing a rebuttal. I have no desire to tell anyone how to vote, what to believe, or which politician deserves their admiration. There are plenty of people willing to do that already. I merely reserve the right to observe the circus, steal a signature style when it amuses me, and continue on with my day. Besides, after years of signing my name the ordinary way, the spikes are considerably more entertaining.

The only real danger is that someday I will get overly enthusiastic at the bottom of a legal document and accidentally purchase Wisconsin.    PLEASE.....all in good humor.

   Jllllllllllll

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