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My First Time Visiting a Foreign Country … Was Around the Corner and Up the Street.

In my young mind, it couldn’t have been more exotic or more intimate.

Aug 15, 2023

My First Time Visiting a Foreign Country … Was Around the Corner and Up the Street.

Aug 15, 2023

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The Lonely Space of Memory

Revisiting the lake of my youth, will life ever again be this happy, this good?

Aug 24, 2021

The Lonely Space of Memory

Aug 24, 2021

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Who Knew Spreading My Father’s Ashes Could Be So Much Fun.

It was the perfect tribute.

Oct 28, 2021

Who Knew Spreading My Father’s Ashes Could Be So Much Fun.

Oct 28, 2021

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How “Nomadland”Wandering Can Make You Happy and Young Again

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct — Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

May 11, 2021

How “Nomadland”Wandering Can Make You Happy and Young Again

May 11, 2021

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CM Ranch in Dubois, WY, Will Get in Your Blood — Keep Calling You Back.

If the allure of the Wild West, with its wide open spaces and wrangling cowboys has ever beckoned to you as it has to me, answer that…

Jul 2

CM Ranch in Dubois, WY, Will Get in Your Blood — Keep Calling You Back.

Jul 2

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Revenge Porn, The Revenge Dress, Trump Revenge — Robins Are Getting Even Too.

It all started while tenants were renting my house.

May 11

Revenge Porn, The Revenge Dress, Trump Revenge — Robins Are Getting Even Too.

May 11

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A Day of Small Discoveries

“The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. “Yeats

Mar 5

A Day of Small Discoveries

Mar 5

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I Don’t Want To Buy Myself Flowers!

Or Write my name (alone) in the sand.

Feb 12

I Don’t Want To Buy Myself Flowers!

Feb 12

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Welcome To Life Stripped Down.

What I felt for a long time was deprivation, is now a blessing in (dis) a new guise.

Jan 20

Welcome To Life Stripped Down.

Jan 20

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Life Is Absurd: Why It’s Essential to Navigate It with a Sense of the Ridiculous.

The song of life can have a heavy refrain: Life’s a bitch and then you die.

Dec 12, 2023

Life Is Absurd: Why It’s Essential to Navigate It with a Sense of the Ridiculous.

Dec 12, 2023

Connie Ottmann

Connie Ottmann

Solo adventurer, writer, painter, not-really-retired former high school English teacher, who enjoys jumping into the unknown. Find me at connieottmann.com

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