How I Became an Icon by Surprise

It was my 77th birthday and I wanted to start the year with a bold new look. Armed with a picture of an exciting, avant-garde hairstyle I headed to my hairdresser to create the style and add the color that would complete the look.

But my hairdresser was distracted that day and made a mistake, leaving me with a patch of red hair about 6 inches wide in the middle of my head and a buzzcut almost to my scalp.

I left the shop mortified but a passerby on the street stopped me, said she loved my hair and called me a style icon. My immediate response was “Well, that’s a surprise!”

I came home, looked in the mirror and decided it’s time for a reinvention.

After all, what do you do when life gives you lemons? You smile, reinvent yourself and turn it into a blog!