Palm Beach, Florida, is well known for Mar-a-Lago, beaches, golf courses, extraordinary wealth, President John F. Kennedy’s Winter White House—and spas. Since I don’t golf or have extraordinary wealth, that’s where I focused my energy.
Spas are ubiquitous—and most offer similar services: massages, facials, reflexology, hot-stone treatments. I’ve had several different massages over the years as well as facials, and they all had one thing in common: tactile manipulation of various body parts. That and soft New Age-y music in the background to induce relaxation.




