long story SHORT...

At lunch with some friends today we found ourselves discussing one of my favorite topics: hair. As my friend Lauren shared about me "we've seen Lindsey through a long year full of good times and bad times, highs and lows, ups and downs, and MANY different hairstyles." This is true. And the catalyst to all that change well -- GROWTH people! About a year a go I shaved my head down to less than an inch. As someone wrote on the pic taken only minutes after the buzzer left my head - "you look like a baby bird" and you know what, I felt like one! I shaved my head because my obsession with hair had taken over. Each day there was a direct correlation between how much my hair was cooperating to how I felt about myself to how my day was going to go. Hair styled to my satisfaction - best day ever! Hair out of place - complete disaster. I lost myself, not IN my head but ON it. Well ladies and gentleman, I am happy to report, with the regrowth of my hair there has been personal growth as well. I've returned to this blog today - over a year since my last post and a year since I shaved it all off -because during my hiatus from blogging about hair I never for a second lost my interest in it. In talking with my girls today over some birthday cake and some haircut horror stories, I felt my excitement growing. I couldn't wait to write this post and get back into it! And the good news is, I have something new to offer --- and it's not just my opinion of feather extensions, braided headbands or brazilian blowouts --- it's perspective people. As much as I love hair, I know that life goes on with or without it. It isn't the be all to end all - it doesn't dictate who we are or anything about our worth - and long story SHORT (or should I say, shaved?) I found that out for myself.