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As winter sinks its fangs in deep, and snow and slush bank the roads up here in the northern U.S., it's nice to think back to the Labor Day weekend in Milwaukee and the wind in our faces! www.runningwithstilettos.com

There are a lot of things to do on a Labor Day weekend...but when your guy lives near Milwaukee and owns a Harley, the only plan possible was to spend it at Harley Davidson's 105th reunion. So Friday morning I traded the high heels, sneakers and flip-flops for my lug-soled black boots and we took off for two days of wandering on two wheels. There was a H.O.G. Haven not far from where I live, and...

I spent $350 on faith last week, and I'm still smiling about it. I'd sold a few things recently, jettisoning some old baggage, including my wedding ring which hadn't been worn for a very long time. Then I'd stuffed the cash into a dresser drawer for just the right moment of extravagance, or symbolism, or indulgence, or frivolity, or disaster. It wasn't going to be spent on anything ordinary....

Announcing the arrival of “Heck on Heels,” my new collection of essays! Here's the text of the press release I'm sending out into the universe... "This is the second collection of essays by award-winning Wisconsin writer and photographer Mary T. Wagner. “Heck on Heels” follows Wagner’s debut collection, “Running with Stilettos: Living a Balanced Life in Dangerous Shoes,”...