For a couple of decades I was in what I call “the envy business.” I traveled to wonderful places and wrote about what I saw and did for the sole purpose of making readers envious. I was pretty successful at it.
My articles were published in the national magazine I wrote for with accompanying photographs that made my holidays look even more glamorous than they were. I was not photographed. They hired models to stand in for me. They wore the clothes better. I found out later the models were paid more by the clothing manufacturers than they were by the magazine. I envied them.
