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The Age of Magical Overthinking

“Faced with a sudden glut of information, cognitive biases cause the modern mind to overthink and underthink the wrong things. We obsess unproductively over the same paranoias, but we blitz past complex deliberations that deserve more care.”

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A Chain of Pearls

What kind of corruption can you find on Martha’s Vineyard?

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Good Dirt

“This was the true miracle of life, he thought. No so much to be born as to bear up under what comes your way. To find a way forward. To embrace what was good.”

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Heist Royale

Ocean’s Eleven meets 21…. a three phase gambit, winner lives.

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Famous Last Words

When your loving husband takes hostages and then disappears for seven years…

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Ace, Marvel, Spy

“When we’re forty, love, we’ll look back and realize we have everything we’ve ever wanted.”

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January Reading Recap

9 books I read this month, and 1 that I didn’t!

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A Killing Cold

“My whole body thrums with fear. It tells me to run. It tells me that the hunter is here, and I am prey. I have always been prey.”

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Fairest of All

The villain origin story of the wicked Queen in Snow White.

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One Woman’s War

“Deceiving the Nazis was one thing, deceiving her husband was quite another.”

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Broken Bread

“God cares much more about how we eat than he cares about what we eat.”

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Sparkly Green Earrings

“Every mother knows the reason Robert Frost took the road less traveled is because he wasn’t traveling with children who needed to go to the bathroom every thirty minutes.”

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A Killer’s Code

“If you’re watching this, I’m dead. And others will be soon if you don’t act fast.”

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Treasuring Christ When Your Hands Are Full

“God made me a mother because he jealously and rightly desires praise for his own name, and this is how he saw fit to do it. God aims to glorify himself through my family, and we all get carried along by his grace.”