This is Beth. Once upon a time we could drop our kids off at school without feeling so scared.
I started this hair/blog project as a frivolous distraction from seriousness and sadness in the world.
But some events demand attention. They deserve full focus.
We give them that, and simultaneously we keep living. We remember the good. We encourage our kids to embrace life and love and beauty and magic and laughter. We have a good cry and then we allow ourselves to have a good laugh too.
Maybe, when we’re ready, we could laugh at the hair of fictional characters. A dozen dos for you to peruse:
Oops, that’s only eleven. Who would you add?
P.S. On Friday night I thought about gun control and mental illness. I wondered why people bring children into this world. And I thought about my own choice to do so without a partner in a way I never had before. I hugged the babes and I cried to Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxcMw5PTDg and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLHCC3geTpc. I knew I could only begin to imagine what people more directly involved were going through.
P.P.S. Thanks Bill.
Changing the Locks 
This story about Rod Stewart including about his ‘poofy’ hair showed up this morning
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/16/167165731/rod-stewart-big-dreams-bigger-hair?ft=1&f=1032
Love! “On devoting a chapter of Rod to his hair: ‘I started having my bouffant hairstyle, as I used to call it, way back in the late ’60s. … I just [thought] people would be interested. I’d never heard of hair lacquer around my way, where I lived in those days, and even a hairdryer was considered absolute luxury. My sister had a hairdryer, and I remember I used to have to put warm water and sugar on my hair and then run up to my sister’s [house], about 50 yards away, in the middle of winter, and blowdry it.'”
How could I forget the “there’s something about mary” do?
Farrah Fawcett and all of her feathery awesomeness.
I would like to hug your kids too. Soon?
Yes, soon I hope!
Also awesome: Bo Derek-10.