For years I have been searching for the shoes I just know I wore in that other life when I fought for women’s right to vote. I know I lived then because when I see films of that time I recognize every little thing. I can feel the corset choking the breath right out of me and the fabrics thick and confining on my legs. Especially I remember the shoes. Mary Poppins wore them, along with her parrot umbrella. I wanted a pair for myself to remind me never to give up the mission to have equality between women and men and to remember that it was not so very long ago (at all) that women were not allowed to vote. Today I know there are women who vote as their husbands tell them to, or lie.

We have not come far enough.Women STILL do not make the same salary (or more!) than men with the same job title.
I want to keep this front and center in my mind so I stay on course with my personal mission to see each human being empowered and free to choose, from their hearts and their educated minds.

I embrace new ventures that require new shoes so it was with great excitement that I went in search of the perfect shoes for my budding speaking career. I wanted heels that I could walk in and that would remind me of the mission. Serious, no -nonsense, but sleek. Shoes I could walk in, stand strongly in, and command in. I found them at the Cherry Creek Macy’s, off by themselves, so unlike the thigh-high boots, Uggs, and take-me-to-the chiropractor spike heeled beauties.

It was love at first sight.
Watch out world. Here I come, with the shoes to get me there.

Unless of course the gig is in Hawaii where I will be in flip-flops, carrying my parrot umbrella.

DID YOU VOTE YET?!
GET to it!