![]() Given President Trump’s efforts to kick up dust around his loss, objections were anticipated, and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, had asked Raskin to help lead the floor response-a role, and a click of republican machinery, that he relished. It was the day when the electoral votes of the 2020 presidential election would be counted. He spent a few days nearly catatonic, “rocking back and forth like a baby.” Then, on January 6, he rode down to the Capitol to try to work. “After searching frantically for my phone-which I had thrown high in the air when I came upon the scene-after dialing 911 and screaming after I tried to resuscitate him and get him to breathe by pressing repeatedly on his hard, beautiful chest…I floated through the house and under the grey winter sky, thinking perhaps I was gone forever, too,” Raskin writes in Unthinkable, his extraordinary new memoir of an extraordinary year. For Raskin and his wife and their two other children, this was the start of a nightmare. The previous Thursday, after preparing a breakfast smoothie, he had gone to the room where his 25-year-old son, Tommy, was staying while remotely attending Harvard Law School and had found him dead, a victim of suicide. Raskin, a Democrat who represents Maryland’s Eighth District, was entering his fifth year in Congress, having first been elected on the same night as Donald Trump. Thanks to NetGalley and Workman Publishing for an advance reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.In the history of workweeks that start badly, few can compete with the one Representative Jamie Raskin began on January 6, 2021, his first full morning back in the Capitol since discovering the corpse of his son six days before. I suspect that in the future I’ll be referring people to this book for more information and ideas. Then she says, “Oh I want to do it, but I’m so nervous!” Often we have a long chat. I can’t wait to tell my Asian husband that I have a use for the water he rinses the rice in!Ībout once a week, a woman asks me if my hair color is natural. Other concoctions have unfamiliar herbs, but most have ingredients readily accessed in your kitchen or garden. But I have to admit the idea of using a drop of blue food coloring in my conditioner is slightly terrifying. I’m anxious to try some of Massey’s tips for keeping silver hair in tip-top condition. Here’s fair warning if you aren’t quite sure yet. For me, the insistence wasn’t an issue, since I’ve already gone all in. Truly, you can be yourself with hair dye or without, just as much as you can be less authentic with or without hair dye. “You must go natural to be your true self!” or some such sentence. ![]() Sometimes Massey verges on insistence rather than encouragement, which might be off putting for some women. ![]() Hair colorists weigh in, as does style maven Stacey London. She uses pictures and stories from real-life women who’ve decided to dramatically change their hair. Massey gives copious lighthearted instructions about how to make the transition to your natural color. (See pictures above for my progression.) I found Massey’s book similarly fun to review, and can imagine how it might answer that “what if?” question for someone not quite decided. I used to stop and peruse the pages, wondering what my hair would look like once the dye was gone. When I was deciding to let my silver shine through and stop dying, I found another book to inspire me. Considering I’m a silver-haired woman with natural curls, reviewing this book is an obvious choice for me. ![]() (And how about that long title!) Massey is famous for her previous book, Curly Girl, which is also designed to empower women to choose their hair’s own natural style. Lorraine Massey’s Silver Hair: Say Goodbye to the Dye-and Let Your Natural Light Shine! A Handbook is empowering and inspiring. ![]()
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