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Musings on the Eve of my 43rd Birthday
Tomorrow I turn 43 years old. This feels exceptionally significant to me. It feels significant because when tomorrow comes, I will be one year older than my best friend/soul sister that lost her life to cancer almost two years ago. Losing someone is hard. There are so many different occasions that must be worked through… Read more
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FeaturedA Hairstylist Dilemma: A Guide To Getting Your Haircut during a Pandemic
Let me be clear, I value my clients. I value the career that has supported my family for the past 20 years. I value the satisfaction of a hard days work (and believe me, my job IS hard) BUT what I do not value is being defined by my function, not my humanity.
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Love in the Time of Covid-19
“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera Why are we staying home? Why are we social distancing? Why are we doing any of this at all? We are doing it so people will live. We are doing this for the one’s we… Read more
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Obligatory New Year Post
I could pretend that I am going to write an inspiring post about change and growth and how all the shitty things that happened in the last year were there to “teach me a lesson”. Demonstrate how I’ve grown and what great things have risen from the rubble… I am not going to do that… Read more
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Christmas Cheer?
“Oh, the silent majesty of a winter’s morn… the clean, cool chill of the holiday air… an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer…” – Clark Griswold If you have ever seen Christmas Vacation, you can laugh about the image above. I LOVE this movie. I want to warn you about… Read more
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My morning coffee.
Why don’t you just relax? Why can’t you just be still? Having two kids and a job and school, coffee is key. 6:30am wake up, lunch prep, wash and fold towels for the salon, find my sons pants in the pile of laundry that I have been meaning to sort and fold for about a… Read more
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Third Time is a Charm??
“You know that saying, ‘you have to kiss a lot of frogs to get to your Prince Charming’?? I MUST have licked a few toads with hallucinogenic properties to get married not once, but TWICE!” ~ Erin (before J.D.) I will stand by the fact that I had to have been tripping balls to have… Read more
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The Beauty Myth… My view.
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” – Audrey Hepburn Ricki Lake. You brave, beautiful soul,… Read more
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My stylist. My Friend.
We have all done it on at least one occasion. We have decided to try a new stylist. The reasons could be simple, but often, to switch stylists can be a painstaking process. When we finally make the call , the appointment, and when we sit in that foreign chair, it feels… well, foreign.… Read more
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Hi! I am Erin. I am Estrogen Dominant…
Have you ever heard such a thing? Estrogen Dominance? It is a medical/naturopathic term that ‘they’ use for women that have a high estrogen level and low progesterone. In other words, your body is completely out of whack. Symptoms are things like, bloating, swelling, lumps in your breasts, mood swings, headaches, weight gain and you… Read more
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