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.
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…
It’s Friday night, I’m writing this and I am brain fried. Today, I had a hair appointment I made two months ago. I was only two miles away when I realized I didn’t have my wallet. I left it in the other car, the car Karl had on the complete opposite side of the state….
Once November arrives, life gets hectic. It can be a whirlwind of buying presents, managing intense schedules, attending events and figuring out what to take and wear and bake for such events, hosting friends and family, the emotional toll of some friends and family, money issues, travel issues, weather issues, and on it goes until…
Sometimes you learn lessons that are major a-ha moments that help define your life. I had one at an influencer workshop where the trainer shared that most influencers fall into one of two categories – church and school. A “church” influencer is offering inspiration, a lifestyle. Follow me to be stylish like me, fit like…
I have written and deleted about five paragraphs so far. It’s 9:30pm on Friday and I have writer’s block. All week, my brain has been racing. Two nights I woke up with a start before 3am and couldn’t get back to sleep. I’ve tried meditating, walking, baths, CBD, reading, yoga, and more. It’s the changing…
If you can’t see the video above, you can view it at this link. Back in July, I went to Nashville for the cabi conference called The Scoop. At this link you can read about my cabi Scoop experience. In that post I said they videoed us influencers and I’d share it with you once…
For several years, I worked with a PR firm to promote a music event. They’d provide me with a set of VIP tickets, in exchange, I shared info about the event on social, sometimes hosted ticket giveaways, and shared my experience at the event on Instagram Stories and occasionally on other platforms. I had many…
Hey folks in the DMV (that stands for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), what are you doing October 16th? The Bad on Paper podcast with Grace Atwood and Becca Freeman are coming to City Winery and I will be one of their guests! It should be a fun night, I’m looking forward to…
Want proof that blog readers are a completely different crowd from social media followers? Wednesday I was on The Today Show. Within an hour I gained 1,000 Instagram followers from it. That day, I only had 500 more pageviews to this blog than Saturday and it wasn’t my highest traffic day from the past few…