The UPS guy just came by with the November issue of Allure, and never have I been so excited to receive a copy of a women’s magazine in my life. Right there on page 110, across from an ad exhorting me to “restore” my “collagen” thereby smoothing “out the signs of aging”…

…is an essay that I wrote about Teresa, who has been cutting my hair with love and skill since I was eight years old. “Just as Michelangelo labored to free the figure born in his brain from the confines of the marble block, so too does Teresa possess an ancient understanding that there exists in everyone’s hair a beautiful stable structure that can be revealed by skilled subtraction,” I say.  But you can pick up a copy (it’s the one with Ashley Greene on the cover) and read the whole thing, if you’d like, because it’s on newsstands now.