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There is such a thing as a pedorthist, who can turn a painful pair of shoes into a comfy pair by changing their construction.
An editor in Glamour magazine had a pedorthist turn a pair of Manolo stilletos into a lower style and raves about it.
Most of us don’t have shoes worth several hundred dollars, but all of us are getting older and with age comes foot problems. So if you have a beloved pair you’d like to reconstruct, look into it.
To read more about pedorthists, go to Abcop.org.
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Men and women have different ideas on grooming, according to a survey by Remington.
Of those surveyed, 71 percent of women prefer that men trim back hair. About 75 percent of the men said they don’t do it.
Same vast canyon of understanding on ears, eyebrow and nose hair: 44 percent of women think it’s bad when men don’t groom those areas.
24 percent of men said they don’t even consider it.
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Men and women have different ideas on grooming, according to a survey by Remington.
Of those surveyed, 71 percent of women prefer that men trim back hair. About 75 percent of the men said they don’t do it.
Same vast canyon of understanding on ears, eyebrow and nose hair: 44 percent of women think it’s bad when men don’t groom those areas.
24 percent of men said they don’t even consider it.
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If there ever was a pop culture positive role model for girls it is Taylor Swift.
She has won about every country music award possible, most notably and amazingly the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Country Music Association, a category long dominated by men. She’s 19. She’s as close to girl as she is woman.
She recently hosted Saturday Night Live and was hilarious without being vulgar or inappropriate.
She had a moment ruined weeks ago when Kanye West famously interrupted her Video Music Award acceptance speech. She managed to handle that with grace and humor for weeks since then. Even at the CMAs, it was Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood who joked about Kanye, with Taylor in the audience lauging, not participating.
She isn’t just a voice or a look, though she has a voice and good looks. She writes her own music and plays her own guitar.
And she gets teenage girls because she is one. Girls manage to look up to her, but not hate her. She has the homecoming girl looks but the nicest-girl-in-the-class sensibilities.
May I never seen her in an inappropriate photo shoot or falling out of a limousine drunk.
Better, may her peers never see that.
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How’s the flu affecting your work life? Are your kids home sick with either seasonal flu or H1N1 and you’re telecommuting? Are you out of sick days but have sick kids and a crabby boss? A nice boss? Are you a professional caregiver with the flu yourself, and having to close your business temporarily? If so, please email me at kmargolis@coxohio.com or call 225-2216. Or just post a comment here. Thanks.
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If your thighs tingle, you could have Skinny Jeans Syndrome.
I too read that twice, but it’s a real thing.
It’s a compression of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, which runs on the outside of your thigh, according to Health magazine. You get it from wearing those tight, tight skinny jeans.
Treatment? Get bigger jeans. (That’s the magazine talking, not me.)
Or, wear denim leggings with enough stretch for comfort.
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