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1). If The Women's Dress Shoe Fits, Buy It!
In this age of enlightenment, how come we still call them women's dress shoes?

Sure, most of the time we wear our women's dress shoes with a dress, but more often than not we also wear them with our tailored trousers, business suits and jeans. But we don't call them "tailored trousers shoes" do we?

And how come we're still wearing those four-inch stiletto heels, when we know how hard it is to stay out of the cracks in the pavement, even in our flats?

Don't you think we might have learned a lesson by now? The.

2). Baggage Handling - And Not The Kind You Take On Vacation!
My friend Susan, a beautiful, intelligent and successful professional single, recently announced that her tumultuous 6-month relationship was over.

"He's got too much baggage and I don't know how to handle it", she explained over a skinny decaf latte at our weekly hangout session.

So how much baggage is too much, and when do we hang out the "overloaded" sign?

It's a fact of life that any man over the age of 30 is going to bring some sort of baggage to a relationship.

3). Flowers As A Metaphor For Life
My dear old Mom won't let anybody buy her flowers. She says she can't stand to watch them die.

Which is probably a bit like saying she wouldn't own a puppy because she doesn't want to see it grow old, or read a book because she can't stand that it will end, or better yet, eat a chocolate because then it would all be gone and all she'd have left to remind her of the wonderful experience is the foil wrapper.

4). Do You Own A Handbag Or A Toolbag?
When my siblings and I were young, I recall my mother wouldn't leave the house without her big black leather handbag. Strap tucked neatly over gloved arm, like a waiter's napkin, she would proudly set off with her tribe tucked neatly in behind her. Mother Duck and the Ducklings.

I've since come to realize that the proud tilt of her chin and her upright posture was simply her smug self-satisfaction in knowing that no matter what catastrophe may befall her, there'd be something in her handbag to remedy the problem.