What Does a Seventyish Woman Want With Beach Hair?

Jean Anne Feldeisen
Crow’s Feet
Published in
4 min readJun 25, 2021

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Photo Credit: Nolan Marketti on Unsplash

I am standing in front of the mirror, giggling at myself as I blow-dry my short brown hair into a frizzy mess of curvy waves. I laugh because I am having fun, pretending to be a beach babe. I look silly and unlike my usual self but in a good way and I wonder if there is a story hidden here.

You see, I’ve never had the luxury of curly hair. Or blond hair. Mine was brown…

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Jean Anne Feldeisen
Crow’s Feet

I've got my fingers in way too many pots. Cook, writer, poet, reader, musician, therapist, dreamer, a transplant from New Jersey suburbs to a farm in Maine.