weekend reads

Last year was my first year buying health insurance for my family through the Maryland healthcare exchange.  When I quit my day job, I went on COBRA for the first year, finding its ridiculous cost actually cheaper than anything available through the ACA.  Last year, the ACA was cheaper thanks to more people using it,… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #93

I wish more influencers would share their real schedules, not these stupid “aspirational” ones where it only includes making smoothies, going to the gym, having a brand meeting and a meditation session. Why don’t they share all the work it takes to prepare for that brand meeting? How they drove an hour to a pretty… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #92

Tomorrow I am heading to NYC for a couple of days.  My friend Sylvia and I just last month had the spur of the moment idea to go up for NYFW.  Neither of us have attended and we thought it would be fun.  We booked our hotel and transportation, secured a couple of show invites…… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #91

Last Friday I was at cabi’s conference The Scoop.  I had felt under the weather all week, got my period early and with serious intensity, was in a different time zone, and just feeling off.  I showed up to the San Diego Convention Center feeling a bit clammy.  I wore pieces from the latest collection… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #90

I’m writing this Thursday night from a hotel room in San Diego, California. I am here for cabi’s twice-yearly conference, The Scoop. This is my fourth time attending a Scoop, but this time is different as I am one of the faces of cabi this season! Outside the San Diego conference center is a street… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #89

This coming week will be a bit lighter than usual with content. I’m leaving on a jet plane bright and early Monday morning for California and won’t be back until… I don’t know whether to call is Saturday night or Sunday morning. It’s early AF or late AF depending on how you look at it.… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #88

Since the Australian bushfires fires started in September, over 14 million acres of land have burned. That’s more than the Amazon and California fires combined. It’s been estimated that half a billion animals have been killed just in New South Wales, and many thousands more are injured and homeless. Thousands of people have been evacuated;… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #87

I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions.  It has taken many years for me to come to respect this body and brain, to enjoy the life I have, and to feel good about who I am.  Resolutions can be helpful to break bad habits or employ new good ones, but so often they are focused… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #86

While I begin Weekend Reads the day after the last one is published, I wait until Friday afternoon to write this blurb at the top.  When I started a draft for this post to start dropping articles I found this week, I figured I’d write about the end of a year, the end of a… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #85