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.
Blogging isn’t what it used to be. And with everything in life that changes and evolves, we can complain and live in the past or embrace it and find ways to have it improve us or our lives. I’ve been blogging since 2005, I’m a straight up blogging dinosaur and I don’t miss the old…
Annie Spratt My family and I have been battling some sort of cold for what feels to be all winter long. It hit me Friday. I woke up all congested and achy but thanks to some motivating texts from my sister I got dressed and ready for the gym. But when I went downstairs I…
I skipped the gym Friday. I was sitting on the couch after meditating, drinking water and staring into space when my daughter came down the stairs. It was a good hour before she usually gets up for school. She came over to the couch and crawled into my lap, pulled the throw over her and…
In my home office, I have a gallery wall of music festival posters, concert tickets, and some personal photos. I use this wall as a. bit of a bulletin board, tucking thank you cards, photos, and tear-outs from magazines between the frames and glass. This week I was cleaning up my office and found one…
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I had a whole different beginning to Weekend Reads and at 6:51 am this morning I deleted it. It all seems so trite with the kind of week the US had. I’m so glad the weekend ended with the government opening back up, if only for a few weeks. I live just a few miles…
Okay folks, I finally watched The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. So many of you have recommended it over the past year, and I’ll admit you all were right. Karl and I started on the holiday break and fell in love so fast we slowed down, dreading the end of Season 2. And we watched the Season…
This week was my daughter’s 10th birthday. Ten years. A freaking decade. A decade ago, I made a human being and life changed forever. I can’t believe ten years have gone by, but then it’s also hard to imagine life without her in it. She’s a pretty terrific human being and I am so damn…
Do you ever experience something and wish you had thought of it? That’s how I felt when my family and I spent New Year’s Eve weekend at the WhyHotel DC. A hybrid between a hotel and an Airbnb, WhyHotel sets up in new apartment buildings in cool locations that aren’t yet full of renters. They…