The brutal choices that face women left behind during wartime hardly get a mention in our histories.
Tag: hair
Because You’re Worth It
This post was going to be about hair. Along the way it took a left turn and became, yet again, about aging. Another sharp turn to the left and it morphed into an idea about women and self perception. One more gentle, left leaning bend brought me to face to face with ideas of identity…
Splitting Hairs
I used to change my hair, as the saying goes, as often as I changed my underwear. For almost a decade, I alternated between buzzing it to a grade 3 and wearing it long, with every awkward length in between. Pixie cut, long, bangs, layered, bobbed. Purple, multiple shades of red, black, and, for a…