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Here’s a nice little piece to start the week off. The Union, out of Nevada County, California, is running an editorial by high school senior Lindsay Adams.
Lindsay was diagnosed with alopecia as a seventh-grader. Though her hair has returned as a result of favorable steroid treatments, she has chosen to title her senior project Creating […]
Monsters and Critics offers a review of Where Did Daddy`s Hair Go? by Joe O’Connor.
Jeremiah never thought about the top of his dad`s head until, at their first major-league baseball game together, he hears someone call his dad Baldy. His father explains baldness, but Jeremiah remains unclear on the concept. Then he hears his father […]
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power disaster. From wikipedia:
The Chernobyl disaster arose from an accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. It is regarded as the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. Because there was no containment building, […]
OK, let’s do a Monday Afternoon Warm Fuzzy, too. It is the Easter season, and that’s enough reason for me so celebrate acts of kindness and generosity… especially acts performed by kids. Here’s an article from the OC Register about Sami:
Seven-year-old Sami Kreeger bounced up and down in the oversized chair, smiling from ear to […]
Here’s a story from my neck of the woods about Victoria, a kindergartner who recently donated her hair to Locks of Love. From the Times Community Newspapers of Greater Dayton:
The preschooler was curious and questioned her father. Later, at the ripe old age of four, Victoria made the decision to grow her hair longer […]
Marybeth Hicks, columnist for the Washington Times, shared the story of Caitlin in her Sunday column.
Caitlin [a high school senior] has alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that affects 5 million Americans, causing hair loss. It can result in baldness or, in severe cases, cause a body to shed all its hair from lashes to legs.
Not […]
For those in the greater Philadelphia area looking for a community that understands and advocates for children with Alopecia, here is Children’s Alopecia Project. (CAP) From their website:
Alopecia Areata is a disease that causes partial to total hair loss in children and adults there is not a known cause or a cure for this disease. […]
From the York Daily Record, comes this story of people going bald for a good cause.
More than 150 folks - mostly volunteer firefighters - gathered at Union Fire Co. No. 1 in Manchester and shared Pierce’s sentiment as they made their way to a stage where eight hair stylists waited to shave heads. They sacrificed […]
A comment today from baldgirly, who lost her hair as a twelve year old, makes this this story from the Yakima (WA) Herald Republic all the more appropriate. Meet Dylan Ball, a sixth grader and freestyle skier who has lost all of his body hair due to alopecia areata. From the article:
Having no hair […]
For many baldness is merely a genetic inconvenience whose only victim is our pride and the illusion that we will never age or change. For others, however, baldness can be a bit more. I’m thinking specifically of children.
Let’s face it: Men are expected to bald as they age. But children? I think most of us […]
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