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  • The Feeder Out Back

    by Robert Smith ...
    The birds were out there the whole time. All you have to do is start noticing.Maybe someone handed you binoculars. Maybe a small brown creature landed on the railing this morning and you realized you had no idea what it was, and, to your own surprise, you wanted to. You do not need to know a finch from a sparrow to begin. You need a window, a little patience, and a friendly voice who remembers ... Read more

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  • Hit It Softer

    by Robert Smith ...
    You keep losing to players who never swing hard, and you cannot figure out why.Here is the answer. Every time you crush a ball from the baseline, pop one up at the net, or speed up a ball that was below the tape, you hand a small donation to the other team. The players beating you are not faster, younger, or fitter. They simply refuse to donate. They keep the ball low, arc it soft, walk forward, ... Read more

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  • Keys in Hand

    by Robert Smith ...
    The calm, honest walk from "should I even start" to "here are the keys."Buying a first home is not hard because the math is hard. It is hard because nobody hands you the whole path in order, and almost everyone you meet is paid a percentage of a number you do not yet understand. So you feel rushed, and slightly stupid, and afraid to ask the plain question that would make it all make sense.This ... Read more

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  • Sold As Is

    by Robert Smith ...
    You have bought a used car twice, maybe. The person selling you one has done it a hundred times.That is the whole imbalance, and it is why the last time you did this you drove home hoping. This book fixes the hoping. It is a step-by-step playbook that runs in the exact order a purchase actually happens, from the kitchen-table math to the drive home, with the words to say at each step written out ... Read more

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  • The Interview Is Thursday

    by Robert Smith ...
    Most interviews are lost in the first ninety seconds and the last five minutes, and almost nobody prepares for either.You have an interview on the calendar and a few days to get ready. Almost everyone prepares for the middle. They memorize answers to twenty questions, walk in, get asked to tell a little about themselves, and hand back the resume the interviewer already read. Then, at the end, they ... Read more

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  • The Last Fear

    by Robert Smith ...
    It always comes at the same hour.Three in the morning. The house is quiet, and the thought arrives before you can stop it: one day this stops. The breathing, the noticing, the you of you. Almost everyone alive carries this fear. Almost no one says it out loud. We call it health anxiety and refresh the search results. We call it ambition and work another weekend. We call it nothing at all and pour ... Read more

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  • The Unlived Life

    by Robert Smith ...
    One ordinary afternoon, a question arrives and will not leave: is this it?It tends to come in the forties, in the middle of doing nothing remarkable. You are driving home from a job you are good at, or loading the dishwasher after a dinner that went fine, and some quiet part of you looks around at the life you built and thinks, I thought there would be more. You spent decades constructing that ... Read more

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  • The Good Retirement

    by Robert Smith ...
    The money advice covers everything except your actual life.More than eleven thousand Americans turn 65 every single day, and nearly all of them were handed the same brochure: save enough, and the rest takes care of itself. Then the first unstructured Tuesday arrives. The meetings are gone, the colleagues turn out to have been friends of proximity, and the person you spent forty years becoming is ... Read more

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  • Unavailable

    by Robert Smith ...
    The light is on. The door will not open.You are not too much, and you are not imagining it. Loving someone emotionally unavailable is its own specific kind of lonely: the closeness that never quite arrives, the future that stays theoretical, the exhausting feeling of always reaching for a person who keeps stepping back. Unavailable explains exactly what you are dealing with, why it is not your ... Read more

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  • WONDER

    by Robert Smith ...
    There was a time, before you were busy, when a certain slant of afternoon light could stop you where you stood. That capacity did not die. It went quiet, and it can be trained back.Adults lose the capacity for wonder slowly, the way they lose almost everything important, without ever quite noticing. The cost shows up where you would not think to look for it: the flat afternoons, the chronic mild ... Read more

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  • Let Them Spell

    by Robert Smith ...
    What if your child understood everything, all along?Millions of families encountered nonspeaking autism for the first time through The Telepathy Tapes. Behind the headlines was a quieter and far more important fact: many nonspeaking autistic people can spell out their thoughts, letter by letter, once someone hands them the letters. Let Them Spell is the honest, practical guide to helping your ... Read more

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  • Widow

    by Robert Smith ...
    He was supposed to grow old beside you. No one tells you how to carry this.The casseroles stop. The cards stop. Everyone goes back to their lives - and yours is still in pieces on the kitchen counter. You are setting the table for one and still reaching for the second cup. Widow is the honest, companionable field guide for the hardest thing a person can be asked to survive: the death of the man ... Read more

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