M

 My good friend M sent me this New Yorker cartoon a lotta years ago - knowing I worship Joni and that we both had boots like Cartoon Woman in our yuuut. They were ridiculously impractical.  It took a ridiculous amount of time to lace them up and they weren't comfortable. But they were a statement. We were both just out of college and basked in the fact that we were making a little $$$ and could afford something ridiculous and sweet to the eye and touch. She was living on Cape Cod and while I visited her for our first Thanksgiving as students-no-more ... I showed off my new purchase while walking on the cold, rocky beach free at last from textbooks forever.