It is often true that families only get together at weddings and funerals. This was the case with our family a couple of weeks ago. My uncle lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. We had already planned a trip to see him when we heard his time was growing short, but we didn’t get there [...]
A few weeks ago, I stumbled across this article about the cobra shoes at Harrod’s in London. That led to a shoe discussion over IM with a friend who is a fellow shoe enthusiast. Then we started exchanging pictures of shoes we wanted like they were pictures of cute boys in Tiger Beat magazine. And [...]
Friday night, I went to a screening of the Darryl Roberts documentary America the Beautiful. If you haven’t seen it, see it. It’s important. It discusses America’s obsession with beauty and what part the media plays in influencing and feeding that obsession.
The film left me with a lot of questions: Why do we place such [...]