Who is Tanisha Poindexter?

Several times a week we still get mail for Teresa. Some of it is junk mail and some of it is still doctor bills.

At first it kind of bothered me, but I know it is going to continue to happen. Whatever.

Today's mail has me puzzled ... more than usual. I'll get to it in a minute.

For those who didn't know, Teresa kept her previous married name -- Clift -- because she didn't want to cause confusion for her daughter, Cassie, as she went through school. Her plan was to change her name to Anderson once Cassie graduated from high school, which she did in 2010.

By that time, though, Teresa was in and out of hospitals and nursing homes. She never got it done for obvious reasons. I kept Clift in her obituary and headstone because I know that is what most people knew her by. Again, I wanted to avoid confusion. It was also still her legal name.

Before Clift, her maiden name was Poindexter. And yes, she was teased about it.

If she was with us today, you can bet I would be teasing her now. In the mail today came one of those prepaid debit card offers from TurboTax in the name of ... Tanisha Poindexter. That's right, Tanisha Poindexter.

I have no idea how this happened or why it happened. I'm tempted to call the 800 number on the offer to get an explanation. Of course, it would do me no good and likely I would eventually get an offer in the mail myself for Ricardo Poindexter or something like that.

I suppose Tanisha could sound like Teresa over the phone, but she hadn't gone by Poindexter in over 20 years. Did Teresa talk to them at some point? I guess it could have happened when she was in the hospital last year in Denver, but she was discharged in early December.

Maybe there was a Tanisha Poindexter living at this address before Teresa bought the house in in the early 1990s, although I really doubt it. That would be too weird.

I'll probably never really know, unless Tanisha Poindexter gets more mail here.

Then I will have to know.