Six months ago I walked in to a salon in Cleveland, Ohio to have all of my hair cut off and my head shaved. I’ve done a lot of scary or intimidating things in my life, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been more scared than I was that morning. I was physically shaking.

If you are new to the blog, you may not know that I used to have a lot of hair. In September I shaved my head to raise money for children’s cancer research through St. Baldrick’s Foundation. I raised money and donated my hair to Wigs for Kids. (See that post here.) When people hear