It was an ordinary day. Looking back through the myriad of photographs I have taken during the many years that I have spent writing my blog stories. Photos of just about anything imaginable from beach pictures along the New Jersey Shore to photographs of the many islands in the Caribbean to where my wife and our friends have traveled to photos of family and photos of the various places that my wife, Carol, and I have lived in over our married lifetime. Even have photographs of the few houses I lived in as a child as well as some of the early cars that I owned over the years. Have added a photograph to many of the stories that I have written over the years and photographs of graduations, birthdays and holiday parties. Many of you have traveled my lifetime with me and have had a chance to see what I looked like as a child as well as an old guy sitting in front of his desktop computer. So...I'm sure you won't mind if I add three more photographs to the batch so I can show you the change in my appearance over the past 30 years or so. The most memorable change is in the amount of hair that I at one time had in comparison to the amount that I now have, or should I say, don't have!! today. Not to worry...because you will more than likely have the same thing happen to you as you age...at least the men! What's funny is that when I was a child I always wanted my hair to be as short as possibly so I wouldn't sweat and have sweat dripping in front of my eyes in the summer months. Well, today I no longer have to worry about that, since I have very few strands of hair on my head. I haven't been to a barber for almost 5 years now, since my wife can trim what ever needs trimming in about 2 minutes or less. Every so often she will look at me and say, "Let me trim that strand of hair that is sticking out of you right ear" or "Let me trim that one hair sticking out your left nostril that looks awful!" From time to time I will see a former student that I might have had in class 30, 40 or even 50 years ago and they will look at me and finally remember my face and say, "Oh, Hi Mr. Woods....didn't recognize you without your hair!" But, you know....I don't have to buy combs or hair spray or coloring or etc. etc. etc. like just about everyone reading this has to buy. The only time I miss my hair is when it's windy and I can't hold my hat on my head like I used to be able to do when I had a fun head of hair. As you look at the photographs below you will see me as a fairly new Industrial Arts teacher in the late 1960s at Manheim Township High School, to the driver of my 1987 Vette which was featured on the cover of "Vette" Magazine, to sitting in front of my keyboard typing this story....since my dear wife has just snapped the photo so you can see me today. Do I miss having hair? Nah!!! No longer need a comb that I probably would lose or special shampoo for dry scalp that I could drop on the floor, or this or that, etc., etc. All I need is a good soft winter hat for when the weather is a bit on the cold side. Do I miss not having hair?? Absolutely not!!!!! And....have all the hassle I used to have. Wait until you guys get old and don't need to comb your hair or pay whatever to have your hair cut. You'll love not having hair. Yeah...I'm not as handsome as I used to be, but I never was handsome in the first place....so that doesn't matter! Only thing I do miss is not being able to have my wife run her fingers through my hair. But wait.....she never did that anyway...said it was too greasy!! It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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