Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Help people suffering in Iran.

Two places I get to call my own.

50 Ways to meet your neighbor.

To my dead friends and family.

Black and white.

Writers and their dogs.

The babysitting empire.

Icelandic glaciers.

And these birds and a butterfly.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

How to get out of a slump.

What's the secret to happiness? 

Alysa Liu.

Why we all need platonic soulmates.

Dusking: All you need is a chair and a view.

I Fall to Pieces from my friend Nancy Davis Kho.

What our family spending says about what we value.

So focused on who we want to become.

Life for women in the 13 colonies.

Galileos handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text.

De La Soul's Tiny Desk.

Audiobook award winners.

And these penguins.

Happy Sunday

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Feel-good hobbies.

My friend Janelle on the dark night of the soul.

How to tolerate annoying things.

Going to the same place over and over again is really good for you.

Tranquil, serene.

In praise of random conversations.

Refresh your life this March.

A ritual of weekly rest.

Hand-me-down Barbie clothes.

An app that finds recipes you want in cook books you already own.

Nonfiction books centered around heart and home.

A cozy Brooklyn brownstone.

And this polar bear mom adopts a cub. 

Happy Sunday

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Rest in peace Rev Jesse Jackson.

Interrupting a negative thought spiral.

How to be more interesting in real life.

Simple living for normal people.

Her enduring style.

For Tayari Jones, all roads and all novels lead to Atlanta.

An interview with artist Tracey Emin.

She draws purchases.

A chat about drawing birds.

The cost of just in case.

The Bookworm's rules for reading.

Spending less time on your phone.

Vince Giraldi's first televised performance of Linus and Lucy.

And baby owls.

Happy Sunday

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How the heart entered our visual vocabulary.

Things you can do today to make tomorrow better.

Go to a museum, any museum.

Blind date with a book.

The heart in the hand.

Reading isn't dead.

I'm begging you to throw away your stuff.

Saying goodbye to the mass market paperback.

The best place(s).

And an otter pup reunited with its mom.

Happy Sunday.

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 Mostly free ways to slow down your life.

Catherine O'Hara, a life in photos.

About loneliness.

What's saving your life right now?

The evolutionary brilliance of the baby giggle.

Her notes to self.

The hippie caves of Malta that housed Joni Mitchell.

A food pantry that makes deliveries.

Saving things for someday.

Resistance songbook.

An epistolary novel for the social media age. (I very much enjoyed)

Rajiv on the practice of picking up street change.

The one day shopping rule.

And Miss Piggy.

Happy Sunday.

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My favorite thing is when your hands get old. 

Things are so bad we're talking about houseplants.

When you are feeling overwhelmed.

Secrets of the super-agers.

Simplify your to-do list.

Lesser known books new to the public domain.

Easy fridge dill pickles.

The stationery channel you didn't know you needed.

And a hamster in a hat.

Happy Sunday