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.
This week I dreamt I was in my white Zara pantsuit at an event at a restaurant or a bar. It was one of those places that is narrow and long, opens up to a large space, and then more nooks and hallways to best use the minimal space available in a city with a… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #114
My Morning Jacket is my favorite band, and the favorite band of my husband and my sister, and now it’s a family band and my daughter also loves them. They haven’t had a new album since 2015. This week they released The Waterfall II, a collection of B-sides that didn’t make it onto The Waterfall,… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #113
I am doing Weekend Reads a day early as tomorrow is a holiday. With all that is going on in our country, there may be some who are going all-out, and some who are choosing not to celebrate it. America was created to be an independent country and live life in a way that a… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #112
How to Help Black Archivist is a project by Paul Octavious, a Black queer photographer based in Chicago. He is also the founder of The Eye Eaters Society. In 2005, Paul began exploring the art of photography and it changed the trajectory of his life. Black Archivist believes in the power of the Black narrative and that… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #111
How to Help Founded in 1973 after the simple act of a mother publicly supporting her gay son, PFLAG is the first and largest organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and families, and allies. Last year I walked with PFLAG Metro DC in the DC Pride parade and have… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #110
How to Help Freedom of the press means that people have the right to give information and express opinions through publication without fear of government censorship, interference, or retribution, such as physical violence or imprisonment. The First Amendment prevents the American government from passing laws that would threaten this right. The past few weeks alone… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #109
When we moved into our current home back in 2000, a husband, wife, and their tween daughter lived next door. Our homes are in a planned community that was part of Roosevelt’s New Deal plan. Some of the houses were made of brick, some of cinderblock, and a few, like ours, were deemed temporary housing… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #108
View this post on Instagram A post shared by courtney (courn) ahn (@courtneyahndesign) on Feb 26, 2020 at 7:03pm PST This week… but let’s be honest, it was like any other week in America, it just… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #107
It’s a cruel, cruel, cruel summer. Memorial Day weekend is usually spent at our neighborhood pool, but right now it’s looking exactly like the previous weekend and the one before that. School ends in two weeks and I am grateful I dropped the ball with signing our daughter up for summer camps this season and… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #106