All 12 Series
LCS is built around standing franchises — columns, conversations, and dispatches that return on a rhythm. Follow the ones that fit the season of life you're in.
Series № 01
Weekly · First Person
The moments that reshaped a life.
Members write the single day a life pivoted — a diagnosis cleared, a child arrived, a stage was crossed, a door finally closed. One day, one turning point, told in full.
Latest: The Day I Heard "You're Cancer Free"
Series № 02
Weekly · Essay
Unexpected joys discovered along the way.
The quiet surprises of a life in motion — gardening at 68, Tuesday mornings in retirement, becoming a grandfather, teaching someone younger. Joy nobody saw coming.
Latest: Retirement and the Art of Tuesday Mornings
Series № 03
Weekly · First Person
New beginnings at every age.
A first marathon at 60. A first solo trip. A first day in recovery. A first day as a foster parent. Beginnings refuse to belong to the young.
Latest: My First Marathon at 60
Series № 04
Twice Weekly · Short
Wisdom discovered the hard way.
Members reckon with the line they were given young and only understood late — slow down, call your mother, save more, don't wait to start. Highly shareable; invites readers in.
Latest: "Slow down" — and what it cost me not to
Series № 05
Weekly · Essay
Small moments that turned out to matter most.
The signature LCS series. The last baseball game with a father. Coffee every Thursday. Teaching a son to drive. The dinner you almost skipped. Small frames, full lives.
Latest: The Last Baseball Game With My Dad
Series № 06
Weekly · Reflection
Lessons earned through living.
Pure Life Capital. Members write what they only understand in retrospect — about marriage after 40 years, raising teenagers, starting over, friendship that lasted.
Latest: What I Know Now About Marriage After 40 Years
Series № 07
Weekly · Serialized
How people build meaningful lives in different communities.
First-person dispatches from inside an experience — an inclusive recovery city, rural caregiving, first-gen college, life after military service, raising a child with autism.
Latest: My Life in an Inclusive Recovery City
Series № 08
Twice Weekly · Essay
A lived moment, read as a cultural signal.
Short essays that take one story — a headline, a death, a viral post, a quiet shift at the dinner table — and ask what it reveals about how we live now.
Latest: What the loneliness epidemic gets wrong about men
Series № 09
Weekly · Column
Small, honest moves when the path is unclear.
A working column for people in the middle of a hard decision. No advice. One person, one choice, the actual next step they took, and what it cost.
Latest: I told my brother I couldn't be his sponsor anymore
Series № 10
Biweekly · Audio + Transcript
Two voices, one hard subject.
Recorded dialogues between people who have lived a question from different sides — clinician and patient, parent and child, leader and led.
Latest: Gabor Maté × William White on the limits of expertise
Series № 11
Monthly · Profile
The members hosting the conversations that matter.
Profiles of LCS PeerCasters — members who turn their lived experience into a recurring show for others walking the same road.
Latest: Maya Okonkwo on recovery and reentry
Series № 12
Daily · Micro
One sentence. One life behind it.
A daily standing feature: a single line of hard-won insight from a member, with a short note on the experience that produced it.
Today: "The relapse wasn't the failure. Hiding it was." — JK, 62