All articles filed in January 2016

  I’m a big fan of the sibling tale, particularly about sisters. The trouble they got into, those Little Darlings and Sweet Valley High girls, who were so devilish I hid their yellow volumes in my closet. With a sister story there’s the thrill of name swaps and boyfriend feuds. Brothers certainly get no dearth of ink…

  Remember the beauty parlor in Steel Magnolias? It was set in Dolly Parton’s den or front room, if memory serves, with chair-mounted dome dryers, piles of spiky curlers, fuzzy edged gossip magazines, the ammonia gas seeping into her curtains and linoleum. I’ve never been to a home salon for my own hair. I was raised…