NPR called.
I have just always wanted to say something like that. As if they had my personal number and just picked up the phone to chit-chat over some Fair Trade vanilla coffee and a chocolate chip biscotti and tell me that they wanted to interview me.
It doesn’t really happen that way, but you get the gist.
There’s an interview here with Michel Martin (fast-talking, full of wit) on her show “Tell Me More“. Also included are Christine Koh of Boston Mamas, Catherine Sabonis-Bradley of This Matters This Day, and Jamila Bey of The Washington Examiner, discussing the business of blogging and integrity and marketing and product reviews and writing and social media and world peace and how to get your children to eat their vegetables and hair issues. So that was a bit of an exaggeration, but you’ll just have to listen to hear it all.
In other news, I am struggling with my SHORT curly hair. My diffuser just broke (yes, TODAY, when I haven’t used the damn thing in forever and now that I need it? Broken.) and there are about 12 different hair products and for some reason the back of my hair is curling differently than the front and YES, I’M TAKING TIME OUT OF MY NPR-INSPIRED MOMENT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW I CAN’T DO MY OWN DAMN HAIR.
Go have a biscotti and listen to the other rational, knows-how-to-do-their-hair women. I’ll just sit here fussing with my hair.
Babe, you never fail to crack me up. And I dunno, your hair always seems to look fabulous. I’ll believe bad hair when I see it. -Christine
That’s why I don’t do my own hair. The shit just doesn’t cooperate!
Congrats on the NPR interview. As for bad hair? You always seem to look great but it happens to all women — just like our monthly visitor…
NPR? Woo-hoo! I’ll listen later today – after I register my teen dude for his Senior Year of High School.
Congrats on NPR! Hey, the hair is hot. It’s just testing you. It costs to look fabulous!
Yay for your interview and boo for you hair. I recently cut my hair short. Now I am contemplating shaving my head because I hate it so much. My hair would dry perfectly wavy when it was long and now I just look like some one chopped my hair off with a knife. UGH. I hate it.
But I’m sure your hair looks fabulous.
How dare your hair mess with your NPR moment!
That is SO FREAKING AWESOME. Going to listen right now.
Congratulations on NPR! And about your hair, I think it always looks fabulous. Curly, straight, whatever. Simply beautiful.
I use Mixed Chicks (http://www.mixedchicks.net/) for my daughter’s thick, curly, multi-textured hair. We’ve been using it for about 9 months, now and I really love the result.
Hair issues… lucky thing NPR is a radio deal! Imagine if Oprah called today!
Hey girl, I’m listening to your interview on NPR right now and just realized we’re in the same town…well, I’m from Springfield but living in Chatham now.
So I’ve been following you for several years. I love your writing style….I live in Atlanta I listen to NPR…I was so happily surprised to hear you in person…..felt like a small world moment and yet ya know we are all connected. You don’t sound like how I envision you…like I hear you..when you write…not a bad thing just a reality check…..does that make sense. I’ll bet your hair looks great wild and curly.
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You are awesome! And if you figure out hair, could you come do mine? We can have a slumber party — I’ll make my hubby and kids go camping or something — and you can teach me how to make my weird-o getting curlier the older i get hair to TAME ITSELF ALREADY.
I heard the interview last night during my drive home, and let me just say this: You are brilliant. SO well-spoken and intelligent and witty. Such a great interview.
you know where to win a flat iron! hehe.
You can use your hand to diffuse… Grab a handful of hair and use your fingers to scrunch all the hair up into your fist. Then put the blowdryer on low and direct the flow of air between your tumb and fingers into the fist of loosely held hair. Dry it most of the way like this and then let it air dry the rest of the way so that you can do the final scrunch and curl placement with your fingers before it has dried completely. (I’m a hairstylist, and couldn’t help but comment on this post. BUT IN OTHER NEWS: Congrats on your NPR appearance!)
Congrats on the NPR call! Remember, it’s R-A-D-I-O so you won’t have to worry about your hair!
Okay, I feel potentially redundant, but as a newbie to your site, led here by some odd conglomeration of reading posts relating to BlogHer starting with Pioneer Woman’s, I **NEED** to ask …. your shampoo and conditioner don’t have SLS in them, do they?????
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, or even Ammonium Laurel and Laureth Sulfate are pretty freakin bad. A little over a year ago i read Curly Girl and got the SLS out, and my curls have so crazy calmed down since then!!! But, mine may not have the same texture as yours do. AND, no one’s has the same anything as anyone else’s anyway, so, let me know on the SLS, that’s a KILLER on curls.
Love readin ya, by the way! And congrats on comforting a parent, as a receptionist for an insurance agency, I wish I could tell people to Pay your Friggin Bill already!!!! But, I can’t.
Hi, Laughing Mouse. Nice of you to make your way on over here!
I don’t think I use a shampoo with SLS. As someone previously mentioned, I use Mixed Chicks products. As far as I can tell, they have “ammonium laurel sulfate” and “tea laurel sulfate”. Are those the same things? The back curls are awesome and the front has this weird straight/wavy odd looking bend in the curl. This is a new thing so I’m really trying to figure out how to correct it.
I’m off to use The Google now…