Midlife Topics: Essays, Reads & Real Talk for Women Over 40

The best reads from the internet this week, ways to help others, suggestions on what to read, see, and hear, and a song for your weekend.

Wardrobe Oxygen’s Weekend Reads: The best articles on the internet, suggestions on movies and books, and a song for your weekend.

How to Help Madelyne Adams, the woman behind Good Letters Design, is a self-taught designer and letterer living in Washington, D.C., and has created some incredibly inspiring murals in the area. She recently reached out and shared how she is hosting a fundraiser for Mamatoto Village.  You can participate in Madelyne’s fundraiser at this link….

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 that desperately needs to confront…

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 a beautiful combination of campy,…

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 beverage of choice, and let’s…

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 to stay alive while jogging,…

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 said I would close my…