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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links


Charlotte Rampling at 80.

The magic of putting yourself at choice.

Jon Batiste on Track Star.

Finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards.

NASA's live Artemis II coverage.

A box.

Calling all readers of cursive.

The shape of Paris, a short film.

Let spring produce be your drug.

And this bun.

Happy Sunday.



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Sunday, March 29, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links


Spring Equinox.

Fear and intuition can coexist. 

Some end-of-the-world guidelines.

Fixing your broken attention span.

Spring rituals. 

Simplicity in doing.

Secret service code names of 11 first ladies.

Decluttering mistakes and how to avoid them.

Would love to spend the weekend here with this gem.

European tree of the year finalists.

And this dog.

Happy Sunday.






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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links

 


You probably know what matters.

Who's in your five?

Vita Nova from Louise Glück.

What we carry from winter to spring.

Time is what you garden.

All hail the "Great Woman" memoirs.

Films that will transport you to Italy.

12 Square inches of possibility.

Why are pencils yellow?

I love a look in someone's pantry.

Love lock bridges around the world.

And they rescue dogs in Baja.

Happy Sunday.



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Sunday, March 15, 2026

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.




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Sunday, March 8, 2026

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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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links

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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Sunday, February 22, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links


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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Sunday, February 15, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links


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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Sunday, February 8, 2026

Smacksy Sunday Links


 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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Sunday, February 1, 2026

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



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Sunday, January 25, 2026

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



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Sunday, January 18, 2026

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




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Sunday, January 11, 2026

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.



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Sunday, January 4, 2026

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.



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