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My latest published story

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For the love of a sister In my fifty years of hairdressing, there have been many, many changes and an immense development of improved products, but there is one thing that I think will never change. That is man’s love for a woman with long…

Just Another Day ?

Here we are just another day right? Not to us who have pain to deal with each and every day.You would think we would get used to the pain. Not likely, what we get used to learning to live with it. How many times have you heard ”Well after awhile you must get used to […]

My mornings, my pain

This morning before I got out of bed I found myself making a wish. Nothing new about this wish but I was hoping this time it would come true. I was wishing for a pain free day. Well it is half way through the day now and I am still waiting for that wish to […]

Life with CHRONIC PAIN

Life with CHRONIC PAIN.

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part six

While I sipped my tea, I warmheartedly remembered my first job working at Elizabeth Arden’s Salon in the Simpson’s Sears store, and the many memories I cultivated there. My modelling début on TV and the multitude of modelling jobs began at Simpson’s Sears while I was still in school. Shaking my head and with a […]

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part five

We spent a great deal of time with Frank and Cathy- Ron’s brother and our sister -in -law. Our two families were exceptionally close, the four of us almost inseparable. Cathy and I would finish each other’s sentences that is how close we were. One delight I had was working with Cathy’s long beautiful hair […]

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part four

Today was to be one of those days that was embedded in my memory and still makes me smile. Christine, now ten, just came in from school while I was bleaching Bethany’s hair – something I did as a six-week ritual. This time I was using a new bleach product just out on the market. […]

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part three

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part three.

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired – part three

I wished that was the end of my suffering but some of it was just beginning. Chronic pain and surgery were two constants in my life. I was only twenty-seven and I was already been four times under the knife. This left me feeling lost overwhelmed and useless much of the time. Needing to find […]

Tidbits from A Hairdresser’s Diary /Scissors Retired

Now we were into early 1974. Four more years had passed and there were even more dramatic changes in our lives. We had happily reunited with my Baba and Guido only to have Guido pass away just a few weeks before our son Douglas Ronald was born. I also had a second chance to get […]