Three months after my 5-year-old daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, I cut off my hair.
It’s not what you think; I wasn’t shaving it in solidarity with her hair loss. In fact, she didn’t start losing her hair in earnest until a couple months later. And while I did donate my eight-inch ponytail to Beautiful Lengths for use in free wigs for low-income women with cancer, the decision to cut my hair was about much more than charity. It was about punctuation.
Or, perhaps more accurately (if I stick with the writing metaphor), inserting a page break and starting a new chapter.
When I look back at the history of my hair over the years, I see a similar pattern: changes in my hair, whether drastic and intentional or passive and gradual, cleave close to the plotlines my life.
Read the rest of this post over at Femamom or The Huffington Post.
Would love to see a picture!
Look at Femamom!
http://femamom.com/2013/02/14/after-my-daughter-was-diagnosed-with-leukemia-i-cut-my-hair-short/
Nice piece!
Your hair looks so cute in that picture!
It is kinda crazy to think back over your own hair history. Mine is somewhat related to big things in my life too mostly relating to my kids. I dyed my hair blonde from puberty till I got pregnant because I was a natural blonde in childhood and I wanted to stay that way. I was not even sure my real hair color at that point. It was a darkish chestnut brown. It was like that for awhile. I eventually cut it into a bod when the boys were little for ease. Then it grew out. Then after getting tired of being asked where Eric got his red hair and finding a lot of gray hairs, I started dying it again but red this time. It is currently long and I like it long but do fantasize about having it short sometimes.
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