Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Demand my full attention, even briefly.

NY Times best book picks of 2025.

Forget your perfect offering.

100 Things that made my year.

Hopes or maybe daydreams.

Easy micro-habits that will change your life.

Free things to do this winter.

My favorite recipe newsletter, The Smitten Kitchen.

And the Hedgehog Highway.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

The difference between anxiety and intuition.

Q & A With Barbara Kingsolver.

Write a letter to future you.

Reflect on 2025, reset for 2026.

Tidying the edges.

Setting successful resolutions.

Indoor activities for the winter months.

Organize your life for more peace.

I'm a fan of financial YouTube guy Gabe Bult.

10 "Easy" modern books that are secretly harder than War and Peace.

Best New Year's Eve movies to watch this holiday season.

And this seal.

Happy Sunday and Happy New Year

Smacksy Sunday Links

 40 Christmas traditions from around the world.

Things are messier than we expect.

Expectations worth letting go of before Christmas Day.

Snow.

"... perhaps we can build a version of this season spacious enough to contain both joy and sorrow."

A soft host manifesto.

My friend Vikki on how we find light during dark times.

Reading slowly, Tom Lake, and the world.

The dreaded - what have you been up to.

How to simplify towards the year's end.

Brandi Carlile Tiny Desk Concert.

Unconventional packing tips.

Easy giftable recipes.

Best science images of 2025. Incredible.

Paper chains.

And a capybara in a Christmas costume. 

Happy Sunday and Happy Holidays

Smacksy Sunday Links

Choosing the changes thst make us better. 

December is not a deadline.

Happy 100 to Dick Van Dyke.

About salt.

The musical legacy of Charlie Brown Christmas.

Words that sound beautiful are easier to remember.

Decluttering in a weekend with the expert.

Her kitchen.

Fun things to do in December. (It's not too late)

Her ten favorite classics.

A Brooklyn backyard.

Good Reads 2025 Choice Awards.

And baby penguin's first steps.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Is Gen X actually the greatest generation?

Katherine May's bookish midwinter gift guide.

Notice who isn't celebrating.

Becoming a first time mom later in life.

The oldest recording of a human voice.

David Byrne Tiny Desk Concert.

International landscape photography of the year.

12 Hours of fireplace video.

And a little reindeer.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Experience the holidays with presence.

I am Santa Claus the elves and Christmas magic.

The comfort of having a signature dish.

25 Things to say to your children.

Street looks.

France's oldest hardware store.

Paris passageways.

And a baby giraffe.

Sunday Links

Smacksy Sunday Links

How high achievers are investing in a 100-year life.

Seth Godin's Thanksgiving Reader.

The neuroscience of aging out of fucks to give.

When grandma sells the house.

How to increase your attention span.

12 Habits to simplify your Christmas.

2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels.

Make your own tradition this Thanksgiving.

Our homes aren't weird enough.

How to spend Christmas in Paris. (And send me a post card, si vous plaît)

One bookstore, three sisters, 100 years.

The moody Parisian nights of Brassai.

And 2 hours of cats and kittens with calming music.

Happy Sunday