Cat in Heels

As you get older some things in life seem to become an ineviatibility. Like the text I got today about bunions. "I think I have a bunion and I have to go to the podiatrist!" Taryn Rose shoes that don't make you hate your feet. This came in from my hair stylist friend who stands day in and day out making the world a more beautiful place one head of hair at a time. I offered sympathies and told her to rock a pair of combat boots all 1990s instead of giving in to the suggestion of orthopedic shoes. I got some sort of half-hearted response that pretty much told me to go to hell. This all made me wonder, is there such a thing as a "good" heel and are heels really to blame for all the world's bunions? The Internet is wildly divided on this issue (because it's the most reliable source ever ). Apparently narrow shoes cause bunions because they push your big toe in against your other toes, so I guess that could include flats. And as for heels being go...

You would think that as someone who has worked and planned events for a number of years, I would have at some point given in to comfortable shoes. Well, I haven't. I kind of tried it once with a low, chunky heeled loafer for a conference, but my feet hurt anyway, so I got rid of them (or they're rotting in my closet, I forget). I don't care what anyone says; running around hotels, or other sites in any shoes, tall or flat, for eighteen hours a day for three to five days straight makes your feet hurt no matter what. The trick I've learned is to wear different shoes every day. This serves two purposes: 1. Creates more luggage than seems necessary because there's a whole separate bag of shoes. 2. It changes the angle of your foot daily so the pressure is redistributed and your feet hurt less. Since it's once again conference season, friends of mine are breaking out the rarely used suits, digging up "conference shoes" and bracing for days or weeks of...