By Caitlin Cunningham
What is your obsession with shoes?
You have so many, many pairs of shoes!
Boxes and boxes of shoes.
You have red shoes, blue shoes, teal shoes, pink shoes, silver and gold shoes, yellow shoes and black shoes.
So many black shoes!
Ones for staying in or going out, for dancing the night away, for long skirts or short skirts, or walking the dog.
You have black shoes for every possible occasion!
And this isn’t even counting all the boots. High ones, low ones, dressy ones, casual ones, ones for hiking, ones for the snow and ones just for rain. Boots galore!
And all your shoes are even separated by seasons! Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.
And clear plastic boxes for each pair, neatly stacked in rows according to color and season. Your shoes are more organized than your taxes!
Oooh! Can I write off all my shoes?
Caitlin Cunningham lives and works in Petaluma, CA. She is an educator working with high school students who have mild learning disabilities. She especially loves helping students with math and writing. She has two adult children, a son who graduated from Iowa State with a history major and a daughter who is currently a pilot studying aviation and aeronautics at the University of North Dakota. She started writing with Jumpstart years ago but stopped when her husband became ill. After his death in 2020, she returned at Marlene Cullen’s urging. Returning to the Jumpstart group has been a supportive and therapeutic environment for resuming her writing and escaping her grief.
