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I couldn't resist uploading a picture of my spike heels to CNN's iReport recent call for stories about shoes and the people who love them. Here's the back story on my getting-famous stilettos! http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-446919www.runningwithstilettos.com

~{}~ The battle axes won’t be melted soon This peace on earth is just a phrase But you and I made up no day too soon So let me give you this embrace The silent nights that we are hoping for They won’t be keeping us awake By sunset we’ll just close and bolt the door Since silent night is give and take ~{}~

~{}~ Far, too far away are you Not just in distance but in soul And though I would, there’s nothing I can do One day your sanity will pay a bitter toll There is so much I gladly would have done If only you would have let me But it’s too late, and now you’re too far gone ~{}~

To a large extent, we are a mobile, moving society. Although I don’t have any statistics, I would venture to guess that a large majority of Americans have made one or more major moves in their lives. For these people (and that includes me), where we were born is not where we currently live. The reasons we moved are varied. Some move for better jobs, some for health, some because it is part of...

Back in the day when kids put on play clothes after school and free time was not so structured, I had my best friend, Lizzie. Each afternoon till 5:00, when her family ate dinner (an hour earlier than ours), we were free to do all the stuff children did in the pre-daycare, pre-Elizabeth Smart, pre-Amber Alert days when you actually saw kids outside in neighborhoods riding bikes, playing...

In the summer before tenth grade I hosted my first real party, the memory of which still evokes the impulse to hide behind the planks of my formerly mousy brown hair in an effort to become invisible. By a real party I’m not talking about the birthday parties I used to have as a younger kid, where I and my two best friends (one of whom I didn’t really like) were driven to the indoor roller...