The One Who Knew
For nineteen years I had a standing Friday at ten o'clock, wash and set, with a woman named Opal.
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Standing Appointment
Thirty years behind the chair. A few things worth telling.
Browse the storiesThe latest appointment · Vol. 19
The One Who Knew
For nineteen years I had a standing Friday at ten o'clock, wash and set, with a woman named Opal.
Read the story Things My Clients Told MeFrom the salon chair to the streets of Monet
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23 stories in the archive
Nobody Called Me
On a Monday, my nine o'clock told me she was so sorry to hear I was selling the shop.
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Forty-One Photographs
Jeanette sat down, handed me her phone, and said she wanted something completely different.
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The Bangs Rule
I have one rule I never broke, and here it is: I do not cut bangs on a woman who has been crying.
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The Photograph
Ruth Ann brought in a picture and asked me to make her look like it.
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Welcome to Monet, Kansas
People ask me why I set a murder series in a tiny Kansas town where the grain elevators are painted like Impressionist masterpieces.
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Character Reference
The federal government called my salon on a Tuesday afternoon.
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What We Owe the Places We Leave Behind
I spent thirty years watching people come home.
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Fort Knox
Every family has a system for distributing news, whether they know it or not.
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The Perm Ultimatum
Dottie had been getting the same perm from me every twelve weeks for as long as I’d been doing hair, and from somebody else for a good decade before that.
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Prince Charming, Royalty Free
I want to preface this by saying I am a hairdresser, not a detective.
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What You See Coming Home
There’s something nobody tells you about Kansas until you’ve driven it yourself.
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The Women Who Painted the Sky
If you’ve ever driven into Monet, Kansas for the first time, you already know the moment I’m talking about.
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The Cat
I want to be clear that I have heard a lot of things in thirty years.
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The Secret That Wasn’t
Diane had been coming to me for eleven years when she sat down in my chair one Tuesday afternoon, looked both ways like she was crossing a highway, and announced in a stage whisper that she had a…
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