Where living an amazing life never gets old
Learn how to walk gracefully in high heels at the High Heel Shoe Museum, which offers 20 great tips plus an instructional video. Much of it may seem self-explanatory to many of you, but for those of us who tend to live in flip flops, UGGS and Chuck Taylors, the advice probably saved us a…
I have lots (ok, that sound you hear is my husband laughing at the glaring understatement of that word) of shoes that look good – really good, mind you — but we’ll admit we’ve been known to wince as we slip our feet into some of those pointy toes and exhale in relief when we…
You know the saying about not judging someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes? Thousands of men around the world have already donned heels to participate in the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” International Men’s March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence. Get the guys in your life to organize…
Grab a cup of tea, sink into the sofa and get lost in “10 Poems to Change Your Life.” Convinced that “Great poetry can alter the way we see ourselves,” Roger Housden has compiled an eclectic collection of poems from a who’s who of poets including Mary Oliver, Galway Kinnell and Pablo Neruda. Housden uses…
Hot flashes, mood swings and raging hormones hardly seem worth singing about, but “Menopause The Musical” has become a surprise smash hit, with more than 10 million women in 13 countries having attended performances since it opened in 2001. Self-described as “The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change,” the 90-minute production (just short enough…
It turns out your mother was right. You know all those times you rolled your eyes when she warned you to wear nice underwear in case you were hit by a bus? Well, we’re not really worried about the bus part, but we have been caught by our GP, our gym mates, our husbands (!)…
One and a half MILLION innocent children died in the Holocaust, and in an effort to honor and remember them, the Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting one and half million handmade butterflies. The project, inspired by “I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944,” will become a must-see exhibit…
To simply call Brooke Astor a social butterfly is missing the point. The queen of New York City high society, Mrs. Astor was a down-to-earth socialite who felt as at home in the tenements and churches of Harlem – the recipients of many of her generous grants – as in the pre-war mansions of the…
