I was born in 1944 and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, until I entered Eaglebrook School, a junior high school in Massachusetts, as an eighth grader.
I was free-spirited and always curious. I learned a lot by trying new things without knowing the outcome. When I was in fifth or sixth grade, a friend and I had the brilliant idea to change the color of our hair using hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound used as a disinfectant or bleaching agent. It seemed easy enough. While my friend succeeded in bleaching his hair blonde, as he intended, my hair unexpectedly turned orange. Stunned at what had happened, my parents declared, "You're not leaving this house, not even going for dinner when the rest of us all go out, until you get that dyed back!"
