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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #274
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… Continue Reading We Got Annie: A Loveletter to Broadway at the National Theater in D.C.
I read Bobbi Brown’s interview with Into the Gloss where she mentioned she used a NuFACE device. Bobbi Brown is all over social media promoting her beauty line Jones Road, and she looks great – she doesn’t look 25, but she glows and looks healthy and cared for. I am over 40 and seeing gravity… Continue Reading The Negative NuFACE Review I Didn’t Want to Write
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #273
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… Continue Reading Under Construction
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… Continue Reading The Skincare I’m Using to Start 2024
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… Continue Reading What to Wear to a Conference
The Best Trendy Sneakers for Grown Women When you’re over 40, it’s hard to know which sneaker trends are cool and which look clueless. I originally wrote this post in 2021, but I update it each year because sneakers are not going out of fashion any time soon. In fact, it seems each year that… Continue Reading The Best Trendy Sneakers for Grown-ass Women
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… Continue Reading How to Care for Cashmere When You Have no Time or Patience