Shorn

I've been thinking of doing this for a long, long time — it's just taken me this long to find the courage to go through with it.

A particular pattern of male pattern baldness runs through the men in my Father's side of the family. I watched my Father half-heartedly struggle against it, though I never thought all that much (or worried all that much) about it, even as the hair at the top of my head thinned out as the years passed. I've come to prefer wearing my hair short, anyway (it felt more comfortable that way), and I suppose this was just the next logical step. (I let my seven-year-old do some of it.)

I'm finding it strangely comfortable — even liberating.