At work, you can walk to a coworkers office or cube to vent and take some time away from your desk. You can walk to the coffee shop or convenience store for a latte or just some fresh air. You could take lunch in the courtyard and use it…
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When I asked for your feedback on how you want the blog to look during this time, one reader asked me to share how we are socializing while remaining physically apart from anyone outside our household. My mom lives a block or so away, my sister a half-mile away. My…
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This is an unprecedented time we are living in right now, and every day I am rethinking how to address it here on Wardrobe Oxygen. It makes the most sense to ask you. How are you doing? What is your life looking like right now? And what do you want…
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I’m calling it now; after years of contouring, compression garments, lash extensions, hair extensions, fake tans, and fillers, after this pandemic, the pendulum will swing. We will have weeks and weeks of our roots growing out, our brows growing out, our nails growing off, our skin getting clear from being…
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We’re in scary times, and we all live different lives in different communities, affected in different ways by what is going on across the globe. I know many of us are affected financially by this, and I want to be sensitive to this fact. I know many are isolated and…
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I’m not writing about the coronavirus because people shouldn’t be getting health advice from blogs. All I can say on it is that you don’t need more plastic bottles of water to ward it off or survive it, and please please PLEASE wash your hands. Even if you’re home all…
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Of all the doctor appointments I hate the most, it is the gynecologist. It’s not the pap smear, it’s not having someone manhandle my breasts while making small talk, it’s everything that happens in between. I’ve been to a dozen different gynecologists, from fancy practices with glass walls and high-tech…
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Every time I went to vote in an election I wondered about the people working at the polling station. I recognized many from my community but didn’t know how they got that job so I did a bit a research. For many parts of this country, this role is known…
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