I watch way too much T.V. Notice that I even capitalize it. But one thing about watching a lot of it is that you know what a lot of other people are watching. I was mentioning this to a good friend of mine, Greg Taylor of Taylormade Hair in San Francisco (as background, he is the guy that invented the vacuum cap). I was talking about how so many companies...

Our hair donation program is one of the oldest in North America. It started about fifteen or so years ago when the Canadian Cancer Society called me up. They were getting a lot of enquiries from people wanting to donate their hair and they wanted to know what could be done with it. I suggested making small-cap wigs for children that needed them. They agreed and we started a very...

Last week I had a regular client come in. She was here to order her fourth wig. She is 9 years old. The Wigs For Kids program has really made a difference for her. When she came in she handed me a present. It was neatly wrapped and had a bow. After she and her parents left I opened it. It was a wonderful box of chocolates. They did not...

I got a call this week form a woman in Michigan. She has a dear friend about to go through Chemo and is looking to help her get a really nice wig. She is really sweet and we were chatting so I asked her how she heard of Continental Hair. I thought that she had just Googled us. She said that “a friend who works in a beauty school in...

I was talking to a regular client of mine a few weeks ago. I did not know she was a regular until then because I had not heard from her in over a year since she got her postiche. I realized she was a regular client now because she called to ask me to order her another one. This means that she has now joined the ranks of the hundreds...

Thirty years ago my parents bought a cottage near Coboconk Ontario. Its tough to find on a map but its a pretty spot a couple hours from the city. When the salon recently had summer shut down for some time off the family and I always head out of town and up there. Its so much cooler in the country. Coboconk, population 800, has an IGA where we get most...