Everyone knows him as Nick Nickerson, and he was born in Spokane in 1929. That makes him 81 years old, and for 61 of those years he’s been a barber. At the end of this year, Nickerson is putting away his scissors for the last time when he retires from his job at Heads Up Barber Shop in north Spokane. “I never really wanted to do anything other than cut hair,” said Nickerson. A trim man with an engaging smile and a knack for telling a story, Nickerson is not really sure what he’s going to do after he retires. “I’m going to have all this time, I don’t know,” said Nickerson, trailing off a bit/Pia Hallenberg, SR. More here.

Question: Who cuts your hair -- a barber, a beautician, someone in your family, or you yourself?