Salon owner. Wife. Mom. Entrepreneur. Lifelong student of people.
Erica Knowles has spent more than 15 years helping women look and feel their best. But somewhere between the haircuts, the highlights, and the everyday conversations, she discovered something unexpected.
Hair was rarely the real reason people came to see her.
The salon chair became a place where women laughed, cried, celebrated, questioned themselves, and sometimes simply needed someone to listen.
Dear Bawsey grew from those conversations.
Not to tell anyone else's story...
But to uncover the little truths that connect all of us.
Because sometimes the smallest moments reveal the biggest lessons.
Dear Bawsey isn't about having all the answers. It's about helping people feel seen. Because sometimes the greatest gift we can give each other is simply saying, "I understand. I've been there too.
Everybody has an opinion. But when did we become so attached to being right that hearing new information feels like losing? Maybe curiosity—and being willing to change our minds—needs a comeback.
We spend so much time asking teenagers what they want to be when they grow up. But maybe there's something they need to hear even more: you haven't met the woman you're going to become yet.
I kept writing “Who still gets perms?” in my notebook—then found myself hauling ass back from my daughter’s senior breakfast to do exactly that. Turns out, perms aren’t the only salon tradition making a comeback.
I used to trust my memory without thinking twice. These days I'm double-checking bills, leaving texts unread, searching for words and realizing I've quietly created a whole collection of workarounds. Apparently perimenopause rearranged the Food Lion
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