Weekend Reads Woah, Nellie, this article blew my mind. The lifestyles of the rich and quarantined. (Washingtonian) How to make yourself immune to secondhand stress. (Harvard Business Review) The German model for America: The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States…
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This week, our neighbors decorated their yard for Halloween and I didn’t realize how much I look forward to it. We’ve been neighbors for a long while, I remember half walking, half carrying Em to their house to be the first place she trick or treated because they do such…
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I think there have been plenty of voices this week for you to have to read and listen to. So sit in a comfy spot, put in some headphones even if they’re not playing anything (my favorite way to have people leave me alone while blocking out distractions), grab a…
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How to Help Our communities are being inundated with painful stories and images of Black people targeted, harassed, arrested, and killed by police and racist vigilantes. As Black people all across the country grapple with the aftermath of an unprecedented global pandemic, somehow Black people also have to figure how…
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I wrote this post and was finished before 3 pm yesterday. I was psyched, I often write Weekend Reads into the evening prior. I closed my laptop, checked in with the family, had a 4 pm friend video chat with a friend and 5 pm business video chat, and then…
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Every summer for over a decade, my mom, sister, and I have gone to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for a long weekend. When my daughter came on the scene, she joined us. We always stay at the same hotel, we go to the same restaurant Saturday after being at the beach…
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Usually, I work on Weekend Reads all week. I start the post and as I read articles or think of something I add it and save the draft. Sometimes, I even have two in draft – the one for the coming week and the one after. But this week, Weekend…
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I want to make sure all readers of Wardrobe Oxygen understand how blogs and social media influencers, as well as many celebrities and online news sources and other websites, make money. You deserve to be an informed consumer, and whether you realize it or not, people are making money from…
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