You can thank Lisa Schroeder for putting today's topic in my head. Until I read her recent post on shoe shopping, and the comments on it, I thought I was the only woman in America who doesn't think that buying footwear is just the biggest thrill ever. I am not a girly girl; I'm not stereotypically feminine. I don't think of shopping as recreation, I don't scream when I see a spider, and I never ask my husband if this dress makes me look fat (I don't wear dresses anyway, unless absolutely forced... read more