Your Stories
On this page we feature our favourite stories of the week, shared with us by some fabulous people.
Worn Soles
By: Dani Mirth Although I always have multiple pairs of shoes on my shoe rack, 95% of the time I have on my feet the same pair of shoes which I wear until they are so worn out, that the holes are more than obvious. But what made them so special that I reached for [...]
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Young Idea Sparks Hope for All Ages
Rebecca Young, from Austin, TX, shares with SOLE SISTERS her multi-faceted love of shoes. “Shoes make me feel feminine, ladylike, and sexy. My love for shoes manifested into an impressive collection of over 100 pairs, with many still brand new and in their original box.” Love for beautiful shoes stems from love for the people [...]
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Love Letter to Shoes
Pam Barnes Dear Beloved High Heels, For as long I can remember, I have loved you. Actually, it was love at first sight when I first saw you hanging in the toy section rack when I was about three years old. I was SO fascinated with those baby pink plastic heels with the flowers glued [...]
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Contest Runner Up-Newlywed But Never Worn
Vivian Castleberry I’ve always been a shoe person. Take me into any store to shop for anything and chances are whatever else I come away with, I will come out with a new pair of shoes. The shoe fetish goes back to my early childhood. From about the age of 2 when I first began [...]
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Mary Poppins Boots-Contest Runner Up
Stacy Meier The year I was 28, I left my newspaper job in Dallas to “do the Europe thing.” One of the older, seasoned reporters had stopped by my desk, nodded toward the world map on the wall, and said: “Do it now. Do it before it’s too late.” Within months of that moment, I [...]
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Every Precious Step-1st Place Winner
Terra Lahrman I couldn’t imagine why my Grandmother would have saved every shoe of mine from birth to the age of nine. Today I might have thought she was a compulsive hoarder. Then, I simply thought she had forgotten to throw or give them away. My first memory was seeing this pile of shoes in [...]
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Dalma and Her Shoes
Vivian Morrow Jones In September 1939 a young woman signed on for her first teaching job in Presidio, a dusty border town not too far from Marfa, Texas. She had gotten her college degree without help from her father, who did not see any need for women to go to college. With money earned from [...]
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Lone Stars of David
Hollace A. Weiner Ready for a quick quiz matching footwear with career fields? Here goes. . . Toe Shoes: Ballerina Tap Shoes: Dancer Cleats: Athletes But what footwear would suit a Texas Jewish historian? That was my quandary as I completed a book titled “Lone Stars of David” and brainstormed with a photographer friend about [...]
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New Shoes, Same Old Condition
Harriet P. Gross I am walking stiff-legged and flat-footed today, as I always do when I’m wearing new shoes. A throwback, I suppose, to my childhood, when getting new shoes was a very special, twice-a-year-only event: in the spring, for Passover, and in September, for back-to-school. Except that those September shoes were really for Rosh [...]
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My Expanding Sole
Dawn Mcghee To speak on a single pair of “favorite” shoes reduces my life to a single incident. My shoes and the shoes I’ve worn have all represented many stages of maturity and experience. The shoes of my earliest remembrance were my Sears brand sneakers. They were called “The Winner”. Those shoes were my mother’s [...]
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