I hope you were able to have a relaxing and safe Memorial Day weekend. If you need a little break as we work toward going back out into the world and finding our new normal, check out my favorite procrastination links from around the web this week…

• Perhaps my new favorite illustration of Jane Austen. (Thank you Marjorie!)

• Oh Eero, how I admire your brass hand railings, your precise sense of scale, all the vowels in your name.  

• What I'm reading: "Light the Dark" by Joe Fassler, based on his marvelous interviews for The Atlantic with a host of writers. Each essay is a gem.

• Speaking of writing, if you've ever thought about trying to write, #1000wordsof summer, the writing club run by Jami Attenberg, begins next week. Sign up here for free.

• This woman's story about being a shitty teenager when her mother died is priceless. (Thanks Mary!)

• Awww! Your 40-second feel-good moment of the week.

• The Persian in me loves the idea of fabric draped across my hair. (It would totally settle down the frizz factor). So, can someone please design super-protective veils like these that protect us from COVID? 

• I liked this rundown of decor decisions that interior designers have to talk their clients out of.

• Hoping this is what my husband looks like in a few years.

• Fans of Luke Edward Hall will be excited about the new book on Diana Vreeland that he illustrated. 

• A new series from the NYTimes called "Mrs." I enjoyed this story of Amelia Earhart writing in to request that the Times no longer refer to her as "Mrs. Putnam."    

Photo by Aaron Burden via Unsplash.