Friday Feels

Friday Feels

Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have the best weekend. I’m off to go to work and allotting myself a full hour instead of the usual fifteen minutes since I work downtown and the POTUS is in town for SXSW! Hope you enjoy this week’s links that made me feel feelings.

  • NASA Shares the 45 Best Pics from Scott Kelly’s #YearInSpace
  • What women find in friendship that they may not get from love.

    For many women, friends are our primary partners through life; they are the ones who move us into new homes, out of bad relationships, through births and illnesses. Even for women who do marry, this is true at the beginning of our adult lives, and at the end — after divorce or the death of a spouse.

    There aren’t any ceremonies to make this official. There aren’t weddings; there aren’t health benefits or domestic partnerships or familial recognition. There has not yet been any satisfying way to recognize the role that we play for one another. But, as so many millions of us stay unmarried for more years, maybe there should be.

  • My friend Neville posted his quote bank.
  • An open letter to strangers who consoled the writer when she learned about her dad’s suicide.
  • Aziz Ansari’s mom recipe for chicken korma.
  • I might write a blog post about how being laid off gave me a new approach to life and friendship. For now, I’ll share you this post from Seth Godin and send love and light to my tribe of supportive friends.
  • 10 adventure loving dogs on Instagram.
  • A dictionary of obscure sorrows.
  • What happens when you put rows of mirrors on a shack in the desert.
  • Personal Plugs (I’ve been busy writing the last two weeks!)

  • Best Thai Restaurants in Austin.

  • Best Date Spots in Austin.

  • Where to eat in Fredericksburg, TX and where to stay.
  • Episode 18 of I Feel Better went up last week! We talk about Stuff Mom Never Told You.

  • And yesterday Episode 19 went up! We discuss the Netflix show LOVE.

  • Are you on Twitter or Facebook? Come and give me a follow or like. I’d so appreciate it!
  • VIDEOS

    I’ve shared the written post of the video below before but enjoyed it in video format too.