For years, the fashion world has been in love with the high heel — the higher the better. No matter how painful, impractical or ridiculous, five, six and even seven-inch heels were the order of the ...

While holding a 3-foot-long cane behind my back, I walked the plank — wobbling along a narrow wooden platform in a pair of hot pink, 4-inch pumps that I’d dug out from the back of my closet hours ...