I like Walter Kirn a lot. My favourite quote from Walter Kirn is this:

Composing a memoir can magically attract the future.

Now regarding hair colour, it is hard accepting ourselves as we get older. Inside we are 19 sometimes, sometimes 6, and sometimes older and wiser. Does our outward self ever adequately reveal our inward self? Seeing ourselves on video or in a picture can be surprising.

I still like my grey and when I get my haircut, I still ask my hairdresser to make me more gray - which he does with something that washes out. I haven't hairdressed adventurously since a trip to the Dominican Replublic 20 odd years ago when I had my hair braided into dreads. Now that's a good choice because you can more or less forget about it for a month. Oh, and that one time just before getting married when I dyked up and shaved most of it off.

But I should say this: If I was entrepreneurial right now and wanted to do some fundraising for a charity or a start-up and just generally be impressive, I would probably have to step up to the fashion plate. I'm so lucky that I don't, for now.