New Shoes in the Rain

Friends, it's now a week until Christmas, if you celebrate that holiday with your family and friends.  Hope you're ready--I think that we finally are! Was thinking the other day about shoes, particularly about my personal history of shoes and foot issues.  When we were kids, both my older and younger brothers were diagnosed by the doctor as needing "corrective" shoes (do these still exist?) and my parents dutifully bought them--once for each boy.  None after that. As I recall, my older brother seldom wore leather dress shoes after that.  His shoe of choice for many years was the original Converse Chuck Taylor basketball shoe.  He generally had multiple pairs to allow time for them to dry between wearings, which is actually something that folks in the know suggest.  My younger brother often wore whatever shoes one of us no longer wanted, to the point where I never actually knew what size shoe he wore. And then there's me. I had long feet as a kid, but they

Happy Tuesday to all....hope you're not digging out from a foot or two of snow, as some of my friends in the East/Southeast are today! I have to say that I caught a major break on the path and pace of that winter storm.  I made my annual trip to my company headquarters in south Florida for meetings last week and was due to fly out late Friday afternoon, just as I did last year.  This year, the weather in Atlanta was workable and so my flights left and arrived on schedule, delivering me home on time.  Last year a similar winter weather system caused a virtual shutdown of the air traffic system from Dallas to Charlotte, which prevented folks with connections from traveling through to their destinations further north.  I was delayed an extra 36 hours, but finally made it home on Sunday afternoon. And as a resident of the northern part of the southeastern US, I can vouch.  Despite efforts to prepare and to keep up, our home area is woefully unprepared for harsh winter weather.  And