starting over -- hair

A sample of the Process

The instructor assigns the topic "hair"


STEP 0 -- Consider a specific topic (maybe 5 words, not a perfect sentence) and start collecting ideas (hopefully 12 or more).

I chose "my hair evolution"


My hair evolution
Marine Corps
childhood blond
moustache
above the ears, behind the neck
silver
longer, then shorter
very fine
bald since 26
change the part




(sorting)
childhood blond
very fine
longer, then shorter (high school, then college)
Marine Corps
   --- notice balding
   --- started moustache
change the part
bald since 26
above the ears, behind the neck
silver




STEP 1 -- Write something that looks like a paragraph from your ideas.



My hair evolution
My hair has really evolved since my childhood. As a small boy I had short very blond hair, like my brothers. In high school I let my hair grow longer, over my ears. It was the fashion in the 1970s, but my hair was very fine, it got curly, and I didn't like that. After my first year of college I went to the US Marine Corps Officer's School, where of course I got a short hair cut. There I first noticed that I was balding in front. I started my moustache in my last day of Marine Camp.  Back at college I grew hair, but kept it pretty short. Balding continued, so my hair stylist recommended moving the hair part from left side to right, as I had more hair to brush over from that side. But by the time I was 26 I had lost everything on top, so I quit brushing over and just brushed down -- I was officially bald! In my 40s I discovered that I was losing my hair over my ears and at the back, and by 50 it was starting to turn silver.




(see my photo on the right!)