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Gather your people anyway
Aug 6, 2025
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Courtney Martin
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What's your community style?
29 questions and 4 actions to get you more connected
Apr 2, 2025
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Courtney Martin
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All aboard the meal train
They come quietly, like an invisible phalanx of midlife lady love, and drop old grocery bags filled with lovingly spiced green curry and vegetable…
Jan 29, 2025
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Courtney Martin
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Get Shit Done Day
a guest post from communications expert and cancer survivor Nadia Walker
Nov 13, 2024
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Courtney Martin
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A strange season in the magic of third spaces
SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY: Join us for an Examined Family online book club meeting on Needy by Mara Glatzel this coming Friday, June 30th at 9am PST / 12pm…
Jun 28, 2023
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Courtney Martin
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Harmony and other pipe dreams of collectivity
On a recent road trip along California’s gorgeous coast I saw this sign and it made me laugh out loud.
Apr 12, 2023
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Courtney Martin
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Dishwasher repair
a poem about community
Mar 8, 2023
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Courtney Martin
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