by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 16, 2008 | Body Language
When Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was removed, his wife Imelda’s closet revealed thousands of pairs of shoes. I’m no Imelda, but I do love shoes. I used to buy vintage shoes at garage sales. Minnie Mouse and Betty Boop style pumps, grandma lace...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 15, 2008 | Body Language
Picture a human skeleton. The kind you see in anatomy classes, hanging on a stand, waiting for students to gather round and count the ribs, or touch the vertebrae. Besides the fact that the skeleton is just a bunch of bones, there is something about it that is...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 14, 2008 | Body Language
“Every breath you take, every move you make, every smile you fake, I’ll be watching you,” sang Sting back in the ‘80’s. Except it’s not quite true. We’re not really watching. We don’t pay attention to the little signals from others, and even more significantly, from...
by Lavinia Plonka | Sep 13, 2008 | Body Language
It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul. “I could see it in her eyes,” “His sad eyes gazed upon her,” “He had an evil gleam in his eyes.” We could probably find hundreds of these common expressions without trying. The...
