Gherking? Like the pickle?

Yep. That’s my last name. Or, close enough. In high school my friends just called me Pickle.

These days I build apps for the International Mission Board. Before that, a handful of tech companies you’ve probably heard of. (And for anyone who’s written BDD tests: Gherkin is the syntax in Cucumber, and the parser compiles it into objects the project literally calls pickles. I didn’t plan that.)

But I like to think gherking is synonymous with pickling. Putting the cucumber in the brine and letting it transform. That’s what I hope the act of writing does to me. That I soak in it and change a little, day by day. Yes, I do come up with meanings for my made-up words.