If nothing else, go barefoot.
But while many doctors say there is nothing wrong with walking barefoot in New York, some see small but definite risks.
And later, next to a recipe for Baby's Got the Blues Fudge Brownies, I came across this sentence: "One thing people sometimes notice about Boulder... is the fact that the occasional Boulder resident can be seen walking down the road barefoot, wearing nothing but buckskin, carrying a homemade bow and arrows".
We would never allow cancer or Alzheimer's patients to walk barefoot, with nothing to eat and no treatment, but we allow schizophrenics to sleep outside in the winter and forage from garbage cans -- and sometimes -- threaten, assault, and perhaps kill the rest of us.
They carried nothing with them and were barefoot.
"There's nothing more elemental than being barefoot in sand.
She is nearly 50, but there is something girlish about her still – the angular kind of girl who will run through fields barefoot, who thinks nothing of getting her hands dirty (Lucas's fingers are stubby, workman-like); a grownup, slightly more masculine version of Sissy Spacek in Terrence Malick's Badlands.
According to investigators, the group's shoes and gear were left behind, and the footprints suggested some people were barefoot or wearing nothing but socks.
Whether you swim, snorkel, whale-watch or enjoy walking barefoot in the sand, nothing beats an ocean escape.
If nothing else, we won't feel bad about going barefoot in an evening dress from now on.
