Do You Happen to Have a High Forehead?

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High forehead with a widow's peak - I part my hair on my right, which I'm recently told is weird, and while I don't have bangs my hair does tend to swoop down over my forehead and hide my left eye. (Swoop isn't really the right term, as it sounds sleek and purposeful - my hair's curly and red, so it's more like autumn shrubbery falling over my face than a "swoop".)

^^ Rita Hayworth styled hers similarly. As did Geena Davis.

Relax, I'd say you're in good company





And good Lord, I am old, old old... I remember these actresses as if it were yesterday.
(edit in: the classic swoop-over-the eye style points, though, must go to Veronica Lake.)

Last edited by Esmerelda Weatherwax on 16 Jan 2018, 7:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't think I do.

Yes, they can be problematic, definitely. I shall consider using the term highbrow, going forward. I, actually, was not aware that was the meaning of highbrow. Oh, wait. I get it, now. Hahah...

Mine's pretty big.

Esmerelda (may I call you Esmerelda?), that's quite a flattering interpretation, thank you!



If you put this lady through a few stout gusts of wind from different directions, gave her a frazzled expression, and made her significantly less pretty, you'd be closer. Think "Bernadette Peters", but then comb her hair with an old-fashioned eggbeater.

I like "highbrow," too.

Because it's a (usually) positive term for intellectual content---and if one has a high forehead, one has a "high brow," too.

I kind of do. But if that is true then a person from my special interest who has a high forehead who i suspect is on the spectrum has it and now my mind is running wild

One Bernadette Peters, coming up. (Eggbeater extra.)




I'm camera-shy - never got into selfies. Been told at various times that I resemble various redheaded women (one opinion was credible: multiple sources (over years)). Since joining WP, I've wished I had a photo to share, but I'm funny about anonymity, so probably it's just as well that I don't.

Esmé works, if Esmerelda is too long - I've been using that to sign off here recently.

To Esme with Love----J.D. Salinger.

Yes. That and a baby face (apparently another ''aspie'' characteristic).

^^ @ Kraftie: Didn't know about that Salinger short story. Just looked it up.

OK, this is extremely freaky. I wear my father's watch.

It's a Rolex I bought for him with my first-ever employer bonus, in 1985. There's a long story about why this was the thing that I absolutely had to do, that I won't go into, but it's sweet.

When he knew his mind was failing, he gave it back to me, because he was afraid he'd lose it, or it would be stolen. I've worn it ever since.

Since the Esme in Salinger's story wore her late father's watch, that is really, really freaky.

I read many of Salinger's short stories before I read "Catcher in the Rye" for the first time (around age 16).

I read "Franny and Zooey" around the time I read "Rye."

He was a very easy and relaxing "read" for me.

I also recommend James Joyce's "Dubliners." Very similar to O Henry--but better.

I have Dubliners. Araby always got to me.

Edit in: I also adore the precocious young black student in the Frazz comic strip, the super-literate one, named Caulfield of course.

Joyce had quite a high and broad forehead.

I knew a kid named Reggie in high school who was rather like that black kid in Frazz. Another black girl got a perfect score in the SATs. She was the only person who attained that score in the school.

I'm an SAT nerd - have been chasing that perfect score for a long time now. I taught SAT prep for a time, but the social anxiety got in the way. I enjoyed a lot of it, but it took too much of a personal toll in the long run.

I'd be fretful about posting a selfie as well, though I suppose an old picture would be less worrisome. I just don't care for tossing my face out on image hosting sites. (Yes, I'm aware of the cloud and that most of what's on my phone is already "out there", but I'll be fifty-one next month and I'm going to claim the right to ignore that.)