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Robin Hoffman, artist, well-known caricaturist, creator and star of the popular Charlottesville T.V. show, “A Day a Minute,” ventured over to the OESH factory for a visit. Her show, along with OESH, supports the Charlottesville Free Clinic, a local organization that provides free health care to uninsured individuals. Letting Robin do a caricature of me […]

A frequent question we respond to is How will OESH perform as a running shoe? In fact, Casey was interviewed recently by the major trade journal of the running specialty industry (more on that when the article publishes in a few weeks) on precisely this topic. Given that OESH Classics and OESH Lizards are designed […]

Scissors Knitting needles Hot coffee Your infant Great-grandmother’s blue vase Broken glass A vial of smallpox virus 3 Mako sharks Mud The neighborhood symphony orchestra Processed cheese Homemade cheese Shredded cheese The Boxcar Children Your replica Civil War-era musket A broken leg Kerosene A feral wolverine Someone else’s infant A hot casserole Paint Both of […]

I wasn’t even going to go but I’m sure glad I did — my 25th reunion from Harvard Medical School. In the backdrop of my Plum Sandals are the main building and quadrangle. Back in school I was pretty much in awe of my 166 fellow classmates. Everyone was either brilliant or had done something […]

I just got my copy of the new book “Tread Lightly: Form, Footwear and the Quest for Injury-Free Running,” written by my friends, Pete Larson and Bill Katovsky over at the Natural Running Center. Knowing how much hard work Pete and Bill put into this up to date treatise of running, I was excited to […]

Remarkable OESHer Becky Mitchell has just returned to the USA after a lovely, extensive family trip to Italy. The Mitchells loved Firenze. And so did Becky’s size 8 Classics: Perhaps less well-known is that Michelangelo’s David recently enjoyed a short break to visit America after his 500+ years in Florence, taking a brief holiday from […]

It is amazing how quickly the OESH name is gaining prominence in both the key-word and blogosphere orbits. I say this because we often take our own tour of the same searches you might to see the influence OESH is developing. Today I jumped aboard the “plantar fasciitis and OESH” phrase to learn what a […]

A new article about OESH for a fascinating trade magazine is coming your way in the next few weeks. We’ll have more on it when published, but the upshot is that this effort will highlight many of the remarkable engineering and equipment decisions that have made OESH hum. Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm we go! And the photographs were […]

I know, that’s a lot but this post that I’ve been promising to write on behalf of all you OESHers who have told me that OESH has helped with metatarsalgia and Morton’s Neuroma, has been a long time in the waiting. Pain in the forefoot, specifically pain in the ball of the foot, occurs far […]

Remarkable OESHer Martha Stafford, aka the Founder & Chief Chef/Instructor of the now-famous Charlottesville Cooking School recently traveled to Barcelona with her size 9 Classics. Ostensibly looking for a substantial European destination to tour (mostly) via her OESH, Martha also brought the rest of her family–lucky them! In front of the still unfinished masterwork La […]