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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.

5 min readAug 15, 2023

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

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The Lonely Space of Memory

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

3 min readAug 24, 2021

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

It was the perfect tribute.

4 min readOct 28, 2021

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

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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

4 min readMay 11, 2021

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

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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.

4 min read2 days ago

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

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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

3 min readMar 5, 2024

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A Day of Small Discoveries

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I Don’t Want To Buy Myself Flowers!

Or Write my name (alone) in the sand.

3 min readFeb 12, 2024

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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.

6 min readJan 20, 2024

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Welcome To Life Stripped Down.

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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.

5 min readDec 12, 2023

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We Need to Show November Some Respect.

Am I alone here?

2 min readNov 14, 2023

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We Need to Show November Some Respect.

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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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