In From Pigtails to Chin Hairs: A Memoir & More, Becky Lewellen Povich takes us from her young Illinois childhood in the 1950s to present day life near St. Louis, Missouri. Each chapter is a scene from everyday life and/or unexpected events written in the way only Povich can, with humor and poignancy woven into them. She relates tales of Christmases, summertime fun, grade school antics, and long car rides visiting grandparents in her still favorite, much-loved small town: Greenfield, Iowa. She willingly shares the bittersweet times, too, which include her parents' divorce, major disappointments, preteen and teenage angst, her ill-fated first marriage spent mostly in Germany, and a whack on her head from a falling crowbar! She also comically writes about her happy second marriage, cell phones, dishwashers, and how she was born with a klutz gene.