Who Am I?

I am a coded message in the URL.

My actual name descends from old Welsh, along with one of my earliest memories: my father angrily telling me that the English stole our name when we came from Wales. He pronounced it EEv-fahnss like a war-cry with a long ah, not the short “a” of the English: Ifans, not Evans¹.

Call me Gaelen, as in gallon, and ask me anything: michaelgifans@gmail.com

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OK, so the URL is code that my first given name, M not M. (or Monsieur) is Michael, that my middle, father-name is a G. if not actually Gaelen, and that my last, surname is pronounced EEvarnz with soft vowels and round, layered consonants in as near as you care to make it to a phonetic, musical language. A long tall zSaally, not a short-as. In my middle name there is a better approximation to the deep mystery that is my Father, and indeed who I am today. ↩︎