A close friend kept having her hair dyed, pretending it wasn’t going gray—in her 60s! She thought darker hair looked more professional. I’ve just let mine do whatever it wants, and I was equally successful in the same profession.
I suspect our different approaches come from our different types of hair. Hers is straight, so she’s always had to choose between letting it hang kind of lank or paying for elaborate cuts. Mine’s crazy-curly, so I’ve always just had a trim now and then and let it do as it pleased… including turning kind of gray now that I’m in my late 70s.
In 2018, our house sold before we put it on the market (word had got around). That prompted a desperate urge to find a new place. There was absolutely nothing we liked in the nearby area we wanted. So I scouted rentals, hotels, etc., and ways to store the post-downsizing furniture and belongings.
It was quite a pressured time! But one day I spotted a sign, we turned, found a model home we loved, and shook hands on it lovely little place.
When we downsized in 2018, I did 90% of the work, emptying an 11-room farmhouse with two attics and a 2-story barn. My husband could not get started emptying his study… three weeks after we moved, the new owner arrived at our new home in a truck jammed with boxes, having packed up my husband’s study.
Last fall, very tired of seeing a much-needed closet full of them, I managed to get them all down and said, “Let’s go through one at a time!” Somehow, he never has time to do this or to put them back (plenty of time for NYT crosswords in ink, though, LOL). I’m so tempted to empty them myself but love him too much to try.
A close friend kept having her hair dyed, pretending it wasn’t going gray—in her 60s! She thought darker hair looked more professional. I’ve just let mine do whatever it wants, and I was equally successful in the same profession.
I suspect our different approaches come from our different types of hair. Hers is straight, so she’s always had to choose between letting it hang kind of lank or paying for elaborate cuts. Mine’s crazy-curly, so I’ve always just had a trim now and then and let it do as it pleased… including turning kind of gray now that I’m in my late 70s.