Starts and Stops

(Ideas that never panned out…)

I have a semi-normal tradition, which is that I start growing a beard at Thanksgiving. Actually, when my Thanksgiving vacation starts. I keep the beard through New Year’s, when on New Year’s Day, I shave it down to a moustache. That all sounds fun, but my beard is so patchy, that I just have starts and spurts of hair on my face. It’s been like that since the first time I tried to grow a beard, during my Freshman year of college. I kept thinking that as I grew older, it would fill out. Nope, I even remember a show I was in, and two male cast members even had a conversation in the dressing room, about how even time they grow a beard it comes in fuller each time. Yeah… not for me… I’m 40 and I still hope that one day I will my face will grow up into a real man’s face. Like when was 15 and shaving for the first time.