Smacksy Sunday Links

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

Smacksy Sunday Links

 Stand with Minnesota.

Your pile of good things.

This small bit of advice.

Cover your twenty-five miles.

We need the poetry of now.

The anti-Nazi teen gang that beat up Hitler youth and danced to jazz.

A new level of minimalism.

National Book Critics Circle Awards.

These feel good books.

10 Of the world's oldest restaurants where you can still dine.

The novels everyone will be talking about this year.

And hatching baby turtles.

Sunday Links

Smacksy Sunday Links

This is not a spell. 

On Noah Wylie and the belief that someone can fix this broken world.

The Zen habit of direct experience.

Continually thrown out of the nest.

Your checklist for every doctor's appointment you need to make this year.

Questions to help you decide what not to do.

The person you are becoming.

Citrus season and how to supreme an orange with Rajiv.

He spends twelve hours making art in the snow and then watches it vanish.

Winning iPhone photos.

And otter moms and babies.

Happy Sunday

Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Oh to be a fly on the wall at this potluck.

More ideas about self care.

Poetry for weary minds.

Indoor hobbies to get you through the winter.

Green Flag habits.

The willows are sleeping.

What is being old and what is just movement debt?

Novels everyone will be talking about in 2026.

Thresholds and a full moon.

In 2025, most Americans read fewer than four books.

The Weekday Vegetarian challenge.

And this dog, Tommy.

Happy Sunday.

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