Deb Brandon: Living in Radiant Color

Crop Circles

August 1, 2019February 19, 2017

I told my hair dresser, Gaye. “I’d like a really really short buzzcut in preparation for the surgeries.” Gaye seemed puzzled. “But why?” “I don’t want the crop circle look.” She nodded. Her son had been through several brain surgeries, and before each one, she shaved his head for him, for the same reasons. She … Read more

Buzzcut I

August 1, 2019July 31, 2015

A few days before I left for Arizona, I asked Gaye, my hairdresser, to buzz my hair in preparation for the surgeries. She did so willingly and I loved the result. After I came home from hospital I asked her to buzz my hair again—she was almost rude in her refusal. Over the next three … Read more