Kyra Teis: Hello, my name is Kyra Teis. Kyra, like a key that you put in a door and Teis like nice. I'm sure my parents never imagined these eight simple letters would cause me so much trouble. Everybody mispronounces it. Ki-ra Teece. The first day of school, every teacher in every class from kindergarten through graduate school, every doctor, every librarian. It's like second nature now to correct people. You think I'd have changed it by now, or at least taken my husband's last name when we got married, but it's part of my personality now. You know, those eight little letters are who I am.