Most of the muscles of your foot let you point your toes down, like when you stand on tiptoes, or lift them up, like when you ...

It's National Wiggle Your Toes Day. This day reminds us to give our feet some attention by letting the tootsies see daylight, after being wrapped up in socks for months. While many love to observe the ...

One of my favorite activities is going to the zoo where I live in Knoxville when it first opens and the animals are most active. On one recent weekend, I headed to the chimpanzees first. Their ...

The eyes may be the window to the soul, but if you really want to know how someone ticks, look to their feet. Foot reading has been practised in China and India for more than 5,000 years. It stems ...

It was the faintest of movements, three toes barely wiggling. Jack Jablonski was sitting on his parents’ deck in Minneapolis before heading out to dinner on the Fourth of July when it happened. He’d ...

I don’t remember the exact date, but it was about the time the dogwoods reached full bloom that I gave up wearing socks. For the next several months, the only time I will dig into my sock drawer is ...

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