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.
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #78
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #77
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #76
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #75
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #74
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… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #73
Set your DVRs, I’ll be on The Today Show this Wednesday, October 2, during the 10am ET portion of the show. I will be on with Sai from Scout the City and Joanna from Cup of Jo and we’ll be chatting about fall fashion trends and how our style evolved once becoming parents. I’m writing… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #72
This has been a hectic week. Last Friday, I took the train up to NYC to film a segment for The Today Show (I know! So psyched!). I’ll be going back for a live portion of the same segment. The date hasn’t been 100% confirmed but right now it seems it will be October 2nd… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #71
The first day of school, my daughter came home and told me that classmates told her she was a VSCO Girl. For those unfamiliar with this term, VSCO (pronounced Vis-ko) is an app where you can edit and upload photos. It used to be a place just for serious iPhone photographers and where a lot… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #70