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Tag: barber shop

Big Little Words

Posted on March 3, 2012March 3, 2012 by dcaldwell23

It’s been over 45 years since Mom gave her first haircut in Caldwell’s Barber Shop. And though so many years have passed, she will tell you exactly who her first customer was and what he said. Mom was a nervous twenty-nine year old and had just graduated from the Lawton Barber School. Dad needed help,…

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Barber Shop Theology – To Cuss or Not to Cuss

Posted on October 8, 2011February 12, 2012 by dcaldwell23

I’m a hypocrite in more ways than I like to admit. In fact, I’m a hypocrite in some ways that I won’t admit. Wait, maybe it’s not so much that I’m a hypocrite, I just tend to have double-standards here and there. In particular… Sometimes Expletives Make Me Laugh      Most commonly, folks would define…

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I Am The Best: No Brag, Just Fact

Posted on September 24, 2011September 26, 2011 by dcaldwell23

A man walks into a barber shop and sits in the chair. The barber asks, “How do you want your hair cut?” The man says, “I want it short on one side, uneven on the other side, crooked in the front and a hacked up in the back.”  The barber shakes his head and says,…

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Barbershop Theology: My Faith Hero

Posted on September 3, 2011February 12, 2012 by dcaldwell23

An Honest Faith I first heard a small diatribe on the subject of faith while visiting Dad’s barber shop.  I was a college student and had grown very interested in my parents’ renewed passion for Christ.  I tuned in a bit more than usual when a fella that I barely knew started to deliver his…

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Barbershop Theology: Faith at the Razor’s Edge

Posted on August 27, 2011February 12, 2012 by dcaldwell23

A straight razor is an imposing instrument. I have watched my dad use one a thousand times, my mom too for that matter. I loved to watch Dad extend the razor strap and whisk the blade back and forth on it. He would hone that blade to a pristine cutting edge before giving a shave…

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