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September 2026

Hospicing in our own little lives
I’m co-creating a series on the books Hospicing and Outgrowing Modernity with the pastor of my church, Marcus Leifert (and friends!).
 • Courtney Martin
Sunday 5
I loved this site where 100 millions kids’ drawings were analyzed for trends.
 • Courtney Martin
The story isn’t over for Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter
or any of us
 • Courtney Martin
The 7 stages of elder care
a mostly unscientific theory of how it often goes
 • Courtney Martin
Sunday 5
I just read a book I think a lot of people slept on: A Marriage at Sea. It is the real life story. told so poetically, about a couple who spent 118 days…
 • Courtney Martin
Rituals for boomers (and their grandbabies)
My dad, like more and more of us, didn’t want a traditional funeral.
 • Courtney Martin
Sunday 5
My friends at Next River created this really cool new thing called FREEDOM RADIO. The question is simple and epic: when did you feel most free, and who…
 • Courtney Martin
What would Gloria do?
7 lessons on how to live in the world from one of the world’s biggest feminist icons
 • Courtney Martin
Sunday 5
The world has lost so many real ones in the last few weeks!
 • Courtney Martin
The story of my dad’s death
I have been marinating these last two weeks in grief and euphoria and the pure communal love of such a wide circle of family, friends, and readers who…
 • Courtney Martin

August 2026

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