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Every year about this time I go for my yearly haircut. My mother swears that if you get your hair cut
on New Year's eve it grows faster. So I always pay a New Year's eve visit to the hair salon down my street.
My hairdresser is wonderful! I can tell her my secrets and she never breathes a word to anyone. As she nips and snips at my hair we reminisce about the year past. She laughs at my jokes, and pats my shoulder sympathetically when I tell her my troubles. She nods at all the right moments so I know she is listening attentively even though she is busily tending my curly locks.
In all the years I have known my hairdresser, she's never once cut my hair too long or too short. She always knows just how much I want cut off and where. She admires my latest color job and agrees it's silly to do it professionally when I do such a swell job myself
for a lot less money.
She never scolds me for visiting another salon when emergencies arise and I can't get an appointment with her. She always tells me how great I look when I sit down in front of her mirrored station.
She always has a funny story to tell me. Last year it was about her going out dancing and losing her pantyhose on a crowded dance floor! Oh what a sight that must have been!
She always talks me out of getting that latest style I saw in a fashion magazine telling me that my hair just wouldn't look good like that so I might as well save my money. And she never accepts a tip from me no matter how great a job she's done. My New Year's haircut is always on the house! Any frugal woman can appreciate that!
So this New Year's eve I'm going for my latest appointment. Right after supper I'll take a bubble bath, put on some comfy clothes and walk to the salon. She'll put the glorious terry cloth cape around my shoulders and pick up her comb. And this year, as always, I'll murmur a silent prayer that I don't slice off an ear or whack off an eyebrow while I perform the annual New Year's cut on my own hair! Now where did I put those scissors?
Teri Hirko, who lives in rural Pennsylvania, is a single mom to two beautiful daughters. Teri's every day life to support her children is a struggle for survival. But she makes it through each day with the love, kindness, support and caring of many friends, both old and new. She enjoys looking at the lighter side of life and keeping a positive attitude which she spreads to others through her writings and poetry whenever possible. She considers putting a smile on the faces of those she meets to be her greatest challenge. Her writing accomplishments include having several poems published, writing a weekly local news column "The Champion News" for several years in The Daily Courier of Connellsville, PA which she sweetened with her own brand of humor, and having her work featured on several internet websites. If you'd like to become one of Teri's new friends, if you're an old friend who has lost touch, if you would like to comment on her work, or offer her a writing assignment please feel free to write to her:
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