Rachel Martin

We are in it right now, aren't we? The holiday season and all the parties that come with it. You've ...

My mom was an artist. She welded big structures together and found beauty in barbed wire. She worked...

This project was intentionally designed to exist outside of the news cycle. I wanted to talk with pe...

It's almost Thanksgiving, which means I am fully within my rights to deploy a holiday metaphor. And ...

I've lived with a lot of musical insecurity in my life. I like a song I can sing along to. I like a ...

I've got a little pile of rocks on my desk. It's not as weird as it sounds. They're small, smooth st...

I didn't know who Duncan Trussell was before watching his Netflix show The Midnight Gospel (no offen...

There's a particular feeling of uselessness that can take hold when you are watching a horrible thin...

We all have those places where we feel most inspired, content — most alive. For me, it's Teton Count...

Sometimes you find comfort in unusual places. It was 1997 and I was living in Japan, teaching Englis...

I want to introduce you to a guy named Rob Delaney. Maybe you know the name already. He's a comic ac...

When I use the word "spiritual" I don't mean it in an exclusively religious way. I use it to describ...

Don't tell my children this, but I wasn't always sold on the idea of having kids. I grew up in a rea...

If you've been following this series, by now you've seen me write about the reason this whole projec...

To start these conversations, I usually ask the guest to define their spiritual identity. And when I...

I'm figuring out through this series that much of a person's spiritual identity — and by extension a...

I was set up on a friend date recently with a woman named Sarah Hurwitz. Mutual friends had been tel...

We all want to feel safe when we're growing up. And in an attempt to make kids feel safe, parents an...

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline...

I didn't know what was under the train tracks, but that was the point. The track was elevated on top...

I started watching this show a few weeks ago called Somebody Somewhere on HBO and raved about it to ...

Some of the most contented people I know are really good at forgiveness. They do not hold grudges. T...

Dr. Roland Griffiths talks about his research involving administering magic mushrooms to cancer pati...

Imagine for a moment that everything you built your professional life around – things that motivated...

Being a teenager is hard. Every day holds the possibility of emotional highs and lows, and parents d...

NPR Poet in Residence Kwame Alexander recently challenged listeners to write a poem about napping, o...

This discussion with Maia Kobabe is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors wh...

Facebook is on the defensive after a whistleblower leaked thousands of documents showing how the com...