Follow-up on headcovering post.

I wrote about headcovering the other day.  I wore a scarf - tichel style that matched my outfit - to church on Sunday and one of the other teachers put her arm around me and asked if I was "feeling well", then eventually came out and asked if I had cancer.  Seriously?

Then another day I dropped by our local Islamic center to grab some learning materials, so I covered to be respectful.  Did you know that you shouldn't shake hands with the opposite gender if they are Muslim?  Women put their hand on their heart and bow just a little bit.  I wore this scarf.  I'm kind of getting into pink lately, it seems.  I bought a baby pink sweater the other day too!

I thought I would prefer wearing the tichel because it was less religion-specific, but it turns out that around here it seems cancer-specific!  Wearing a headcovering that shows more hair, like below, is less likely to get that reaction, but to be honest that styling is very hard to wear.  It requires a lot of pins and doesn't stay well.  My hairline is obnoxiously high (you have a forehead, I have a fivehead)....  sigh.

The saga continues...    Expect to see varying levels of headcovering over the next little while.