New Do

Posted: June 13, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: , | 4 Comments

 

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New hairdo selfie has a dual meaning for me. First it means what all young people think of as a selfie and that is a picture I took of myself in my new do, but for me it means the hairstyle I was able to do myself the day after it was cut.

 

Yesterday I went to see my hair stylist Kathy at Sling Blades and told her it was time to cut all my hair off. The last and only time I had hair this short was at Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural when I went to the ball with a friend who needed a real girl as a date. That haircut then was so horrible that I have never gone back to really short hair.

 

But I am thinner now than I was then. In fact, yesterday I was half a pound away from what I thought was my goal weight so I decided it was a good time to chance a shorter look. I also was thinking ahead to my summer travels to Africa and Maine where the lack of hair styling products and electricity meant that I was going to have fairly horrible hair to begin with.

 

I am a self-professed hair moron. I am not good at styling hair. I can get a round brush so tangled in four inches of hair that professionals need to be called in. That means I have to have a great stylist who can give me a completely idiot proof cut. I think that is what I got because I showered and did my own hair this morning and in the blink of Vidal Sassoon’s eyelashes I was able to recreate the salon look Kathy gave me yesterday.

 

Only time will tell if I am able to figure this thing out day in and day out, especially considering I have what the pros call a double crown cowlick. Does that mean I am royalty? Maybe it means I need to have a court hairstylist at all time. Nonetheless, my new do is cooler, and by that I mean temperature, it is easy and as long as I keep my mouth shut I can walk by some people and they don’t recognize me.

I’m Advocating Eating Spaghetti Just This Once

Posted: April 4, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: , | 1 Comment
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See Kathy Jacob’s halo

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Most people I know don’t cut their own hair, thank god.  If you have a hair stylist then you know how important that relationship is between you and the person holding the sharp weapon behind you.  I feel a great indebtedness to the saint who listens to me every month as she works miracles with the pitiful hair I bring her to work on. Kathy Jacobs the owner of Sling Blades has been my hair angel for at least the last seven years.  Not only does she give me a do I can do, but also I know she has also been listening to me.  How do I know that?   All on her own Kathy decided that she wanted to help make a difference for hungry people in our community.

Every month as I get all nineteen of my hairs trimmed Kathy and I talk about things we are passionate about.  Food is often the hot topic and my work with the Food Bank of CENC.  Kathy is a kick ass cook and loves to feed people so we have a lot in common.  She has other clients who run food pantries and also hears from them about the growing number of people who are food insecure.

One day Kathy decided that she wanted to get involved to help feed her neighbors.  Her brilliant idea was to marry her love of feeding people with fund raising and decided to hold a spaghetti dinner to raise money for the Food Bank.  I have never seen Kathy so excited about anything, other than her daughter, as she told me about her plans to cook a fabulous dinner and serve it out of the Pleasant Green Community Center in Durham.  She has gotten prizes to raffle, belly dancers to come and entertain and is making the most delicious of meals all to benefit hunger relief.

If you are looking for a great dinner this Saturday night and want to help hungry people at the same time think about going down to Sling Blades Hunger Relief Spaghetti Dinner and say that Dana sent you.

Regardless if you can make it Saturday or not there is an even easier way for you to help the Food Bank win $45,000.  Wal-Mart is giving away millions of dollars to Food Banks across the nation, but the winners have to get votes on the Wal-Mart Face book page.  You can vote once a day for the next 40 days.  Just click on this link and like the Food Bank of CENC. bit.ly/VoteFBCENC.  It won’t cost you a cent and if the Food Bank does get the money they can turn it into $450,000 worth of food.  NO brainer – please vote and share it with your friends.

It takes all of us doing what we can to take of the world.  Thanks to all of you who participate in making it a better place.  Now go eat some spaghetti and vote.