Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
I’m writing this Thursday night from a hotel room in San Diego, California. I am here for cabi’s twice-yearly conference, The Scoop. This is my fourth time attending a Scoop, but this time is different as I am one of the faces of cabi this season! Outside the San Diego conference center is a street…
This coming week will be a bit lighter than usual with content. I’m leaving on a jet plane bright and early Monday morning for California and won’t be back until… I don’t know whether to call is Saturday night or Sunday morning. It’s early AF or late AF depending on how you look at it….
Since the Australian bushfires fires started in September, over 14 million acres of land have burned. That’s more than the Amazon and California fires combined. It’s been estimated that half a billion animals have been killed just in New South Wales, and many thousands more are injured and homeless. Thousands of people have been evacuated;…
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. It has taken many years for me to come to respect this body and brain, to enjoy the life I have, and to feel good about who I am. Resolutions can be helpful to break bad habits or employ new good ones, but so often they are focused…
While I begin Weekend Reads the day after the last one is published, I wait until Friday afternoon to write this blurb at the top. When I started a draft for this post to start dropping articles I found this week, I figured I’d write about the end of a year, the end of a…
The holiday rush is over. The seasonal sponsored posts and gift guides have been published, the gifts have been purchased. My daughter finished her last day of school and doesn’t return until next decade. We have our traditional Christmas Eve and Christmas Day family activities and even booked a little getaway for New Year’s. Other…
This was a week of Adulting with a capital A. If you follow my Instagram Stories you know last week I was struggling with healthcare. Thanks to the Affordable Healthcare Act (AKA Obamacare), since I no longer work for a company, I am able to get my family insurance through Maryland’s healthcare exchange. Last year…
Cyber Week may still be going strong, but I chose to not share sales this weekend (except one exceptional one below in my Weekend Reads) so you could get a palette cleanser. While this is a fabulous season for shopping, there’s more to December than gifts and holiday outfits. And December can be a bit…
Weekend Reads are late this weekend because this is no typical weekend! If you’re like me you may not even be sure what day of the week today is! Yet again, we hosted Thanksgiving. This year was a nice-sized group of just nine of our family and like family. We’re eating plant-based, so Karl cooked…