The Postscript

“Thinking About My Hair”

I saw a photo of an author I admire recently, and she had no hair. I worried she was ill, so I immediately investigated. She was not ill. She had cut off all her hair and had done it for good reasons, she said. She had done a lot of thinking about her hair -- a lot more than I had.

First of all, she said, she was not blond. 'No one is blond,' she added, or almost no one.