Enter Cordelia

The name Cordelia elicits one of three responses from the people that I’ve met.

They are taken to the heroine in Shakespeare’s King Lear. They remember the bad girl of Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned good girl of Angel, Cordelia Chase.* They just stare at me wondering why we chose that name.

For us, the name now means our cat, Cordelia, who is the slayer of bugs and toilet paper. It fits because of the possible French origin of the name, “coeur de lion,” meaning heart of a lion. She hunts t...