Weekend Reads #274 Explorer may have found wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s plane in Pacific. (Reuters) Grant program for Black women comes under tough questioning in key anti-DEI lawsuit. (AP) Millennials don’t know what to wear. Gen Z has thoughts. (New York Times – gift article) Activists are organizing to combat generative AI and other technologies—and…
When I was in 5th grade, a friend of my dad’s came to visit. She was a close friend from his life before my mom and us, but that past life didn’t end on bad terms. She had red hair, took the bus, and brought us gifts in heavyweight plastic bags with snap-close handles advertising…
I am still tinkering with the blog. It is both infuriating but also exhilarating. I have done site renovations in the past, but I paid a company thousands of dollars to do it, and then I sent them a punch list to fix anything I found wrong. I paid someone to install the new theme…
If you visited Wardrobe Oxygen in the past 24 hours you likely saw an “Under Construction” message instead of my blog. As I mentioned in last week’s Weekend Reads, I am renovating this site. It is not just a makeover with new font or layout, but an entire framework change as well as theme. And…
I know I am not the only one who looks at their reflection a little more in January than any other month of the year. A new year can do that to you. Me maybe more than others as at the beginning of this month, I birthed my daughter, and at the end of the…
At some time in your life, you will attend a conference. It may be for your job, your house of worship, a nonprofit you support, a passion project, a side hustle, or a hobby.With the world opened back up, conferences seem to be taking place on the daily with some aspects online but most back in…
For many years, I refused to buy cashmere sweaters because they seemed too difficult to care for. I had no desire to hand wash and gently swish, and I had no room in my small home for fancy drying racks. When I had a job that required a lot of suits and dry clean only…
As a blogger and influencer, I try to do one thing per quarter to improve my business. Some are ways to work smarter, some are to increase revenue, some are to increase community, and some are just to make things look better. And this quarter, I am going to be giving this site a glow-up….
Welcome to Deep Winter, the time of year after the holidays when the days are dreary, the temps are low, and many of us are feeling a bit overwhelmed by the “New Year New You” mentality of January and exhausted after the holiday season. We may be a bit softer or a different clothing size…