Choose the Right Sandals and Your Feet Will Thank YouWritten by Maureen Renard
Summer's almost here and warm weather gives us permission to take off heavy socks and let our feet breathe in sandals for every occasion. The varieties are nearly endless. For all of you working women, look for support and ample straps to give you a comfortable platform when walking hallways and offices in your business lives. Stay away from high heels and particularly thin heals as your backs and legs tire quickly with uneven stress those styles can create with all-day wear. Save very high style strappy sandals for parties and dates as limited time standing will help your feet survive ordeal. Platforms are big this season. They will typically attract younger set but can be a fun change from more conservative styles you might have only thought you could wear. Be careful if you have weak ankles. These high risers are great for stout and strong but not for those of us who trip a lot over sidewalk cracks and toys left around house. Huaraches are another good choice and heavier Doc Martens are great for long walks and shopping marathons. Inexpensive styles are good to give you lots of choices to wear with different outfits. Or, of course if your budget allows, invest in several styles that fit your various needs from casual beach sandals to those that will serve you best at dressy occasions.
| | Who Do They Think They're Kidding!Written by Jeannine Schenewerk
I recall sitting in a movie theater in 2003, to catch ‘Something's Gotta Give', film starring Jack Nicholson and Dianne Keaton. I’m not a fan of most of today’s romantic comedies, but I am a Nicholson fan, so I took a chance. I won’t give a film review here; rather, I’d like to share something I experienced in theater.At beginning of movie, we are presented with Nicholson’s character. He’s a sixty-something playboy, involved with a much younger woman, played by Amanda Peet. Very soon, we are treated to impending prospect of these two characters ‘getting it on’. Seated a row or two in front of me was a group of young women, all in their mid to late twenties. As implications of aforementioned scene began to get through to audience, I, and a number of other patrons, overheard one of young women exclaim, ‘Oh God! She’s gonna do Grandpa!’, at which point, there was a ripple of laughter throughout our seating section. I must admit, I found exclamation not only amusing, but as well, rather ‘telling’, like end of old children’s tale, ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. You know, one where a little child, in his completely honest observation, points out what his elders all know, but refuse to acknowledge, due to old ‘herd’ mentality. In tale, it’s fact that Emperor is not wearing a suit of clothes to die for, no, he is buck-naked! In movie, it’s fact that viewers are to believe that this young woman finds this over-sixty man, sexually attractive, and highly desirable. There have recently been, and probably will continue to be, these age-gap romantic pairings, in films. One element will always remain same, with these pairings. It will ever be movies with older male, paired with younger, sometimes MUCH younger, female, which film industry will continually grind out, expecting viewing public to swallow this scenario as believable. Which makes me wonder from what planet do these filmmakers hale? Honestly, when was last time you noticed a young woman eyeing some average sixty year old man, (and key phrase here is, ‘average’ sixty year old man, not some man coated with sheen of wealth, power and celebrity, as desire-incentives) with total lust gleaming in her dewy eyes? Did you see this at local mall, beach, some concert, or sporting event? I can honestly state, I’ve never seen it. In addition, I can honestly state, when I was a dewy eyed girl in my twenties, men older than thirty were just, well, ‘old’.
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