Smacksy Links

 

Taos Pueblo

For anxiety or the Sunday night scaries.

Use the novelty effect to slow down time.

Creating a spiritual practice without religion.

The art of apple trolling.

Stop pushing through.

Can we stop hating on the PTA?

Try savoring.

How memorizing poetry can expand your life.

Meg Ryan your fall.

Recipes for comfort.

Irving Penn: Smal Trades

And this peacock spider.

Happy Week

Smacksy Links

Simple shifts.

Dream big.

Moments.

Female rulers who deserve more recognition.

Reading parties.

About elves. 

Iggy Pop and Tom Waits on the BBC.

French truck stop food.

Rajiv wraps gifts.

PeeWee's Playhouse Christmas.

Fred Flintsone's Christmas Carol.

And polar bears.

Happy Christmas!

Smacksy Links

Reminders to help you stress less.

How I travel.

We're always training something.

The hotel spirit.

Inventing the beach read.

Women settled the West.

A country garden.

Italian artist Cibo.

And capybara.

Have a happy week. 

Smacksy Sunday Links

Choose joy.

The $100 billion reason not to return gifts this holiday season.

100 years of friendship. I love them.

Plan a reading day.

The emotional lives of animals.

Vintage snap shots of mid-century women matching their Christmas trees.

And wild and elegant horses.

Happy Sunday. 

Smacksy Sunday Links

How to get over common creative fears.

She's 91 but she feels 15.

Never before seen glowing jellyfish.

And a hummingbird who will not leave the side of the dog who saved her life.

Happy Mother's Day Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Mr. Rosenberg went to Seattle this week and saw the sunrise.

What romance means after ten years of marriage. This is so good.

Small ways to make a meaningful difference.

NYC to LA to NYC to LA Ad Infinitum. 

And the cutest dwarf donkeys. 

Happy Sunday, My Valentines.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Everything is fine.

This unexpected Q & A is important.

A cautionary tale about money.

Basic survival skills for living a good life.

These women are growing older with style.

And kittens in a teacup.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Ways you're making your life harder than it has to be.

Why you should stop waiting.

I posted this David Bowie clip last month on my list of 31 perfect things. Here it is again. Still perfect.

Beautiful sentences from literature. Some really lovely ones. I love #42.

And dancing baby stingrays.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links: How-To Edition

How to start off the new year when you want to live simply.

How to destroy procrastination.

How to read an entire book in a single day.

And a pink hippo.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Ways to spread cheer.

Recharge and find happiness in the new year.

Fly through 17th century London.

And a mama otter and her baby.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

The melancholy before the merry.

How different people live in identical apartments. 

Ricky and Doris and their unconventional friendship.

Rare photos of Frida Kahlo.

And dogs in the snow. 

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Change your story to change your life.

She's lovely and an inspiration.

Beautiful, 100 year-old color photos of Paris.

And a puppy playing with an iPad.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Are you addicted to distraction? (Guilty.)

Falling out of good habits.

A song about peace.

And a little panda.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

About spending your life.

T. S. Elliot reads, The Still Point in a Turning World.

A hundred things to be thankful for.

And gorgeous animal photography.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

How to want very little.

Life, one sentence at a time. 

Can reading make you happier?

And a hamster eating a carrot coin.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

This is the ritual you need to do every day.

Ways to take care of yourself over the holidays.

How to peel a hard boiled egg. (Game changer.)

And dogs versus their own shadows.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Photo C. Seid

Tiny tweaks to improve your life.

What my mother wanted us to pack. This is lovely.

Screw finding your passion.

I could hang out here.

And a little cow that thinks it's a dog.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Scientifically proven ways to have a better day.

The fourth meal.

Surfing the biggest wave in the world.

I would like to ride with this family.

Beautiful portraits of dogs.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

True love with a dog named Pete.

Buying begets buying.

A photographer removes phones from his photos to show how addicted we've become.

A magical town in the Netherlands with no roads.

This woman runs a retirement home for dogs. Bless her.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

I practice simple living but I still love my stuff. Exactly.

In the backseat. This is wonderful.

Twenty ways to celebrate fall right now. Yes.

It's not a hot pumpkin spice latte, and yet it is.

And Golden Retrievers bringing in groceries. Take notes, Teddy.

Happy Sunday.