The older we get, the more impact we experience from small changes to our routine. I share products and methods that help me fall and stay asleep, deal with perimenopause symptoms, alleviate back pain, give me energy, let me experience mindfulness, relaxation, and peace while still having an active life.
I have two bags I use on a regular basis – my ALLSAINTS tote and my Dagne Dover backpack. I keep them in the dining room so it’s easy to switch between them. The rest are upstairs in my closet, I bring them down and fill them from the bag in the dining room and… Continue Reading Enter Witty and Poignant Title Here
The biggest reason I quit my job was to save myself. I once wrote in my journal that it was like living in a Plexiglass box. You know how Plexiglass gets yellowed with time, gets scratches, goes cloudy? My Plexiglass box was letting me see life, but I wasn’t really feeling it and it was… Continue Reading In Repair Mode
One of the benefits to using affiliate links is I can retrieve analytics on them. How often were they clicked, how often did they end up selling, what are the most popular categories, brands, and more. I found your favorites were some of my favorite purchases from the year – great minds think alike! Do… Continue Reading Wardrobe Oxygen Readers’ Favorites from 2017
This is a long one, but this was a long year. 2017 was intense in many ways, in this post I recap one of the biggest whirlwinds of my life, taking this blog from passion to profession and hopes for the New Year. I wish all of you a 2018 full of hope, health and… Continue Reading 2017 in Review
I’m famous for being able to sleep anywhere. My husband loves to tell the story of how we went to this little bar in Ocean City, Maryland to see Jimmy’s Chicken Shack play and I fell asleep sitting up at a bar right on the edge of the stage, head propped up with my hand,… Continue Reading Seeking Sleep: Ways to Sleep Better and Longer
Last weekend I wrote a long post about my one-month anniversary for quitting my day job and blogging full time and my blog ate it. I was in Texas, it was 11pm (so really midnight back home) and my dashboard (the backend of my blog) seemed to go back in time several days. Posts I… Continue Reading Life After Quitting: One Month Recap
When I got engaged, I was 27 and a size 12. Karl bought me a ring in a size 8 which fit perfectly in November 2002 when he proposed, but was a bit snug in the warmer months when hands swell. When I got engaged, I went on a diet. Actually, I went on a… Continue Reading With This Ring…
When Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista invited me to speak on a panel at The TCFStyle Expo I was thrilled. One of my blog goals for 2017 was to do more public speaking and the TCF Expo looked like such an awesome event. I invited my sister Debbie to join me and we made… Continue Reading A Weekend in Atlanta (with a TCFStyle Expo recap!)
You know how Facebook shows you posts from the past and asks if you wish to share them? Recently, Facebook brought up a photo from when I had my broken arm, and I was wearing a hot pink and black zebra-print cover over the cast. My twice-broken arm isn’t one I wanted to relive, but… Continue Reading CastCoverz Review as a Happy 2X Customer