On Hair

by Vanessa Blakeslee

Originally published on April 9, 2010

You can still feel the bristles as your mother runs the brush through your hair. The mane sweeps down your back, brushes the waist of your jeans. Every morning, you and your mother meet for this ritual. Some days, she gives you two high ponytails, the knobs at their elastic-bound bases like the knobs of [...]