Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Questions to ask your grandparents.

Life design.

The silence of middle age.

The natural born artist.

On beauty and wellness.

There's no magic retirement number.

Money diaries.

We lived around the corner from this family in Aptos, in the 1970s.

Mediterranean summer staycation.

Six organic produce box subscriptions.

And this quokka. 

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Portraits from Ellis Island. 

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Be the light.

Ann Patchett has already determined the best book of the year.

What ancient writers understood about bees.

A list of good cook books.

A little red cottage in the Swedish countryside.

The oldest restaurant in each state.

And a baby porcupine eating corn.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Idiot wind.

What coffee is for.

Ferris Bueller 40 years on.

Making a fuss of anniversaries is good for your body and brain.

Why dinner never gets easier.

Noah Wylie visits the LA museum founded by his grandmother.

The cook book endures.

She bought a house in Italy for $13K.

And hamsters in hats eating snacks.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

The history of Juneteenth. 

Soothe your soul with a quirky side-quest.

Prom night in America.

Fold laundry with me.

You don't have to be a minimalist to own less.

Two volunteer peach trees out near the compost.

The history of the Michelin Guide.

The first official portrait of Barak and Michelle Obama together.

Cy Twombly.

The books readers are most excited about this summer. (2 down, plenty to go)

Junk journaling.

And kissing giraffes.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

 

Let go to get what you want.

You can't heal in survival mode.

What actually increases your energy.

Georgia O'Keefe.

The Segrada Familia.

Tom Hanks at the typewriter store.

Great French movies for free on Tubi.

This home in Larkspur, California.

Beautiful small towns around the world.

This carousel.

And these Newfie puppies.

Happy Sunday.

Smacksy Sunday Links

 Harness the joy of anticipation.

Mental health *is* physical health.

Nora Ephron and the speech that made me.

Your friend group has a financial culture.

The Nobel-winning psychologist who believed he found the secret to happiness.

Stop telling me I look good "for my age."

Maggie O'Farrell talks Hamnet, family history and her new novel Land.

At 101, this artist is finally getting her big break.

Could you do yurt living?

Best movies to watch on a long flight.

New books for June.

This West Sussex farmhouse.

They never miss.

And baby goats.

Sunday Links.

Smacksy Sunday Links

Here's the essay I wrote in the LA Times this week.

What I learned about loss while skateboarding at Costco.

This interview about creativity with Hozier.

The man who reads books for a living.

Goodbye Sonny Rollins.

Ode to the kitchen bath.

Tenderly tracking my husband.

This heat.

Design your summer.

Lower your living expenses.

Just do a thing.

Dumpster diving.

Summer beach reads. I'll definitely be reading Ann Patchett's latest.

And this stowaway fox.

Happy Sunday.