Among the many things a female English friend of mine told me, this one comes to mind first: "It's an amazing liberty for a woman to go out with we hair." She also told me that a fringe is common. Oh, please, say it isn't so! Where does that leave the so-called no-fringe fringe then? Apparently, women like to hid behind a fringe. Or was that mere misogny from a Man Devil (Mandevillian), who, himself, likes to sneer at people from behind his lace curtains. Surely there are many kinds of fringe. Nevertheless, I have it on the authority of an old hair dresser friend of mine that the famous page boy look--the bob--is not a hair style, and that she point straight up refuses to "cut anybody a bob". Is there no end to the point blank intolerance of bangs?

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!