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Hey Dad,

I think I've discovered something—something BIG! In fact, I just may go down in history with great discoverers such as Columbus, Einstein, Edison, and Galileo. I mean those dead guys came up with some great ideas, but I've discovered the key to understanding women. Jump back!

It's their hair.

No, I'm serious. I'm pretty sure that a woman's hair is the mystic portal that controls her thinking, emotions, and behavior. I was first alerted to the possibilities of this theory about a month ago. My wife had been complaining about her hair and had been a little on the grumpy side.

"It's driving me nuts … . It feels so yucky … . I want to do something different with it," I often heard her saying.

I confess that I wasn't the most understanding husband. "It looks great that way!" I always responded. "Why would you want to cut it?"

Eventually, things came to a head (no pun intended). While we were visiting St. Louis, my wife saw a hairstyle that she liked and asked the lady were she'd gotten it done. This was the first tip-off to my theory. I mean a guy never asks another guy where he gets his hair done.

"It's just about 20 miles back that way," my wife told me wearing a big smile, which soon vanished when she heard my very guy-ish response to why we weren't going to drive way out of our way just to get a haircut. But I recovered after seeing her disappointment and begrudgingly took her to get her hair done.

You should've seen the transformation when she stepped out of the hair salon. It wasn't the haircut, but her countenance was completely changed—she was smiling and radiant.

You know, it's not just her though. I've heard my sister-in-law say she gets cranky when her bangs reach a certain point on her forehead. And while we were with my brother and his wife a while back, she too mentioned how her hair was driving her nuts.

I probably wouldn't have made the full-blown discovery had it not been for my daughter Katherine who about a week ago also said, "I wish I could get my hair cut before we go to Florida."

Not her too! I thought. So acting upon my discovery, I said, "Let's get your haircut when we stop at Wal-Mart."

You should've seen her eyes light up. I'd discovered the mystic porthole of love—her hair.

So Dad, if your wife's been a little on the cranky side, then let her go get her hair done. If she complains that it's driving her nuts, encourage her to "try something different." Actually, I don't think it's so much about their hair as it is that we show them we care about what they care about.

I'm telling you, Dad, this is big—real big.

You 'da Dad,

© 2007 Todd Wilson. Used by permission.

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