Discovering a friend shares your love of Jessica Rabbit, hiking to the top of K2, finding one last piece of candy corn in mid-November – these are all reasons to rock. Not to be confused with discovering your friend shares your love of mini croissants. That is a reason to have a mini tea party. …

Stumbling over rocks in my high heels, feeling the sun’s heat on my skin, being annoyed at tourists – I remember it as though it were yesterday. But it wasn’t. It was a long, long, terribly long time ago. It was a time when I could walk without my shoes quickly becoming damp and heavy. …