Beard…On Hiatus

Something that I’ll bet never occurred to most of you, ( it certainly didn’t to me!) is that your body has a lot to say about whether you have a beard. There are a couple easy jokes that center on whether you’re male or not. I’ll let you make them and I’ll move on.
My “procedure” was almost two weeks ago and my beard has not grown at all. Normally in a two weeks’ time period I’d look like Dan Hagerty’s not-so-very-good-looking-dad in the upcoming Grizzly Adams-“Idaho- Freelance Broder Patrol” (Sundays 10 pm, ZBS).
Instead, my body is pretty much saying: “Dude, I don’t know exactly what happened, but I’ve got waaaaay bigger fish to fry ATM. The beard will just have to wait. It makes sense when you consider all this as a “whole”, but it kind of makes you think of how well connected your body is and how well designed it is (mostly). So I have no idea when my beard will start growing again…I’m really in no hurry either.

About Zaslow Crane

Zaslow Crane wrote his first Science fiction story when he was 11 This was after an uncle had given him a Charmin case full of sci fi paperbacks- all the old masters: A.E.Van Vogt, Cordwainer Smith, Heinlen, Bradbury, and dozens more. After that, he never looked back. Zaslow Crane has contributed to numerous magazines and newspapers over many years, and has been a contributing editor for a national magazine. He has been published a couple hundred times for non fiction. Regarding fiction, he writes primarily SciFi and was one of the creative talents behind Smoke and Mirrors, a parsec nominated podcast that "re-imagined" the Twilight Zone and, which ran for 2 1/2 years. He has written over two hundred short stories, 7 or 8 novellas and two novels, one of which "explains" a great many advancements in human technology. He likes mindless sort of work, because it frees that other part of his brain to work on story ideas, so if you see him, say, digging a ditch, you'll know that he’s really writing. He lives in a tiny house on a hill in Central California. His home overlooks the ocean - IF you're willing to stand on tip toes and crane your neck. Just a bit.