And now, after years of being my beauty-break, the thing I didn’t have to make better, the protein matter that I dyed iridescent shades of eggplant for fun, chopped into sassy bobs, twisted into lame dreadlocks; chunks of hair wadded together with lanolin, has, over time, like every other genetic luck of the draw, changed. In a [...]
February 6, 2013
Guest Post by Mary Koch Until I was 23, all my days were bad hair days. I was grimly determined to curl my absolutely straight hair. I started wearing curlers at age five. I either set my hair every night or had permanents until I got married in 1968, and my husband refused to sleep [...]
February 4, 2013
Guest Post by Stephanie Simpson Lazenby Our hair is inextricably tied up with our sexuality–and the color, length and style of it transmits an immediate message to all. Like our clothes or makeup (or lack of makeup) our hair is a signal that we send out. I enjoy feeling good in my clothes and as [...]
January 28, 2013
Guest Post by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser The haircut came suddenly late at night, fueled by the bug scampering across a piece of tissue paper after I’d dislodged it from my head with the Cadillac of nit combs. My head had been itching rather terribly all day and upon learning that my daughter’s head was scratchy [...]
January 22, 2013
My thick, kinky hair has never been something easy to manage. I’ve tried hundreds of products. As a teen, I’d stare dreamily at girls with straight hair, desperate to feather my hair just once. I’d cry with envy when Marcia Brady brushed her hair 100 times with abandon. Curly girls don’t brush their hair. Ever. [...]
December 10, 2012
1. My friend Marci sent me this post “I’ve Started Telling My Daughters That I’m Beautiful,” from the website Offbeat Families. She wanted to hear my thoughts. It’s a bold statement, especially once you’ve hit 40. Or 41. I tell my daughter she is beautiful. Do I tell her I’m beautiful? No, I don’t think [...]
September 23, 2012
My mother turned seventy-three years old on Saturday. My kids and I drove up to New Hampshire, to the house she lives in with my step-father, who has been a great dad-like-guy for over twenty-five years. He’s watched us all grow from wobbly, extremely young adults into middle-aged people cluttering up his house. He’s [...]
September 11, 2012
At a bat mitzvah this weekend, a woman wore a very short sequined mini-skirt, a white wife beater and 4-inch heels. This woman had a rockin’ body. Not one ounce of flab. This woman was my age. I wore a mini as well that night. It wasn’t as mini as her mini. Hers was triple [...]
July 12, 2012
I pulled my back out on my date with the A-Hole from Bridesmaids. You know, the Jon Hamm character? A perfect storm of vanity and self-consciousness converged on a bench, when I tried to make my bare legs (100 percent humidity had me in shorts) look their best. I alternated between crossing them (bad for [...]
July 5, 2012
Guest post: by Jean Callahan (A fearless explorer shares a few of her adventures…) The Hindus say there are three stages of life: student, householder, and spiritual seeker. According to this paradigm, people over 60 are irresistibly drawn to the devout, spending their days in meditation and the practice of good works. Needless to say, not [...]
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February 18, 2013
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