
Editor’s Note


The Good News
Numerous studies suggest that consumers increasingly want their purchases to be a force for positive change, be it environmental, social or charitable. The younger the

Reporter’s Notebook
Recently, someone asked me what I did for a living and I replied, “I’m an editor.” I didn’t bother to mention my official title of


Channel Surfing
Recently, my family and I were enjoying an episode of Reservation Dogs on Hulu when a commercial jolted me like a Crazy Eddie ad from

My Morning Mecca
It started in the fall of 2020. While working remotely in my Upper West Side apartment, I took a browsing break one afternoon and stumbled

Heads Over Heels
I’ve been creating issues of Footwear Plus from scratch for approximately 26 years – 10 times a year, 260 issues, give or take a few.

Exile on Manhattan
For the past 25 years I have lived on an exotic island. Not the tropical paradise kind, rather the concrete jungle of Manhattan, a.k.a. “the

Mother Nature Knows Best
One of the TV commercials that became entrenched in my pop culture-cluttered mind was Chiffon margarine’s “It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature.”

Star Power
You’ve seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough