Big Hair Heroes

Lately, repetitively cleaning every inch of my house, filling out job applications (alas, my Ten Thousand Villages job was only for the holidays!) and drinking a lot of coffee has given me an opportunity to muse about important subjects like my hair and the state of the baseboards around here.   Like many of you, I have an 8x10" black and white photograph of Dolly Parton in a polyester jumpsuit gracing the counter in my bathroom.

I like to imagine I can understand what Dolly would say as I'm getting ready for the day.  More makeup, Dolly? You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.*  Is this too much jewelry for this outfit? I modeled my looks on the town tramp.*   Is my hair to big?  Dolly doesn't even dignify that with an answer.

During the summer, being a Southern lady for me was characterized by the humidity dictating that my hair would frizz out to troll doll proportions.  I often got the feeling that Dolly would consider that (with a little hairspray) as an advantage.  

Much as I have always loved my In Style magazines, lately I've been thinking that life is too short to fight the larger than life things one sometimes encounters when they look in the mirror.  Maybe they aren't problems. Maybe one is just comparing oneself with the wrong people.  In that spirit, I am dedicating my bathroom (I mean this to be an honor) to my personal big hair heroes.  Women who not only have hair far larger than what I myself might be able to achieve, but who have also done cool things with their lives.

So far I'm a little heavy on country singers and Wonder Woman, but I know that with time this will be an incredibly inspirational collection, and yet another reason to come visit us at the Chalkboard House.

*actual quotes from Dolly Parton