When my husband needs a haircut, he says, “I think I’ll go get a haircut.” He breezes out the door and is back in an hour. For me it’s a life-altering decision. When I’m dissatisfied with my hair, it colors my entire life (pun intended). Bad hair puts me in a mood to match. So, … Continue reading Hair Today—Gone Tomorrow?
childhood memory
Listening Back
I haven't been able to get these words out of my head today: We cannot live our lives constantly looking back, listening back, lest we be turned to pillars of longing and regret, but to live without listening at all is to live deaf to the fullness of the music. — Frederick Buechner, The Sacred … Continue reading Listening Back
Memory, Revisited
Last October, I participated in what I thought would be an impossible challenge: to write a memoir piece for each of the first 25 years of my life. Jane Ann McLachlan has launched the 2013 October Memoir and Backstory Challenge, and I'm having a go at it. This year, each week has a theme, and because October … Continue reading Memory, Revisited
Gerry Wilson 