This is my first attempt at a blog, outside of myspace. I hope you'll enjoy it. I chose Growing Old Gracefully as my blog topic, because I feel it gives me a wide range of subtopics to expound on.
Tonight I'm going to talk about one of the most obvious signs of growing older, at least for men; your hair.
There are three distinct signs I have found, dealing with a man's hair and aging. I discovered the first sign in 1989 when I was visiting my sister Sharon in Chicago. I was a scarce two years out of college. I had been in California nearly a year, and was visiting Chicago for a music festival, not rally feeling like I was aging terribly. One evening I was watching a movie in the living room, lying on the floor next to my darling niece Debbie. Suddenly she said, "Uncle Stevie, you have a gray hair!" and she proceeded to pluck it out. A few minutes later she proclaimed "Oh, look, another one." and again yanked it out. After another few repeats, I told her to please stop before I went bald...
This leads to the second sign of aging that hair shows, the loss of hair. My wife's grandfather used to say, "Half my hair turned grey, the other half turned loose." I found that funny, until my widow's peak began peaking higher and higher, and the spot in the back of my head got thinner and thinner. I tried to convince myself that no one could notice the bald spot. This notion was blown away one Christmas when my oldest daughter Dakotah was only four. It was actually a week or so after Christmas, and we were getting ready to take our tree down. I was under the tree loosening the tree from the stand. Dakotah looked down at my head and said, "Daddy, you have a hole in your hair! There's nothing there." It was true, I was going bald.
The third sign hair give of aging is its appearance in places it doesn't belong. I speak specifically of the two places I have been cursed with hair growth, the inside of the ear (and sometimes the top) and the nose. Now I know nose hair serves as a filter for incoming air, but does it have to grow long and white? A few years back I broke down and asked for an ear/nose hair trimmer...yes I use it...yes it works...kind of. Point is, my hair, or lack there of shows me, beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am growing older...gracefully?
Tonight I'm going to talk about one of the most obvious signs of growing older, at least for men; your hair.
There are three distinct signs I have found, dealing with a man's hair and aging. I discovered the first sign in 1989 when I was visiting my sister Sharon in Chicago. I was a scarce two years out of college. I had been in California nearly a year, and was visiting Chicago for a music festival, not rally feeling like I was aging terribly. One evening I was watching a movie in the living room, lying on the floor next to my darling niece Debbie. Suddenly she said, "Uncle Stevie, you have a gray hair!" and she proceeded to pluck it out. A few minutes later she proclaimed "Oh, look, another one." and again yanked it out. After another few repeats, I told her to please stop before I went bald...
This leads to the second sign of aging that hair shows, the loss of hair. My wife's grandfather used to say, "Half my hair turned grey, the other half turned loose." I found that funny, until my widow's peak began peaking higher and higher, and the spot in the back of my head got thinner and thinner. I tried to convince myself that no one could notice the bald spot. This notion was blown away one Christmas when my oldest daughter Dakotah was only four. It was actually a week or so after Christmas, and we were getting ready to take our tree down. I was under the tree loosening the tree from the stand. Dakotah looked down at my head and said, "Daddy, you have a hole in your hair! There's nothing there." It was true, I was going bald.
The third sign hair give of aging is its appearance in places it doesn't belong. I speak specifically of the two places I have been cursed with hair growth, the inside of the ear (and sometimes the top) and the nose. Now I know nose hair serves as a filter for incoming air, but does it have to grow long and white? A few years back I broke down and asked for an ear/nose hair trimmer...yes I use it...yes it works...kind of. Point is, my hair, or lack there of shows me, beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am growing older...gracefully?
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Hi Steve, I've got a blog on here too! And you should watch the Bill Cosby DVD about him turning 40! It's hilarious! Happy blogging!
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