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.
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…
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 Reads is being put together…
I remember you first contacted me when my sister was in the hospital for a brain tumor. You asked an innocent question and I took out all my fear and anger and worry about her surgery on you. I was walking from one wing of the Georgetown University Hospital to another, a place where you…
I was flipping channels the other week and came across Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian and award-winning bestelling author. She was being interviewed about her book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times. The book goes into how Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson handled tough times in America, making difficult decisions,…
This week we bought school supplies and ordered back to school clothes. My daughter starts middle school at the end of this month, something she’s been looking forward to for so long. Middle school is a topic of many of her books and the shows and movies she loves, but this year she’ll be attending…
Even before I started my blog in 2005, I loved how the internet offered a sense of community, a way to connect with individuals across the globe who were kindred spirits. Through the internet, I was able to meet heroes and inspirations I only knew before from my books, magazine subscriptions, and the shows on…
I know I am not the only one who is struggling to be productive, to be focused, to have the same creativity and drive they had six months ago. I have fantastic ideas for blog posts but can’t form more than one paragraph without losing my direction. I trip over my words when I try…
If you’re not excited about the November election, you’re not alone. I get it if your party’s candidate isn’t who you wanted. It was clear in these past four years that we didn’t elect just a president, but a whole administration/regime. Your vote isn’t just for a president, but an entire administration and we need…