A life more analog

Is a pile of old journals worth anything that matters? Yeah, it is.

Nov 7, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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October 2025

Love, grief, and tears

On showing care in whatever ways we can

Oct 20, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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What if you aren't any good at it?

In praise of doing it anyway (and of inflatable frogs & unicorns)

Oct 17, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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September 2025

What feeds us

Of fury, Furies, and force

Sep 30, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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When the right plant in the right place isn't

(Not really about plants. But you knew that.)

Sep 22, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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August 2025

Letting the salty flood wash over me

And finding a way to a better kind of hard

Aug 6, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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June 2025

Getting by with a little help from my friends

Life feels really weird right now, but also really normal, which is part of why it feels really weird.

Jun 6, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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May 2025

Maybe read it as if it were a poem

When you practice "this is about/this is really about" on the day of a school shooting

May 23, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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What kind of abundance do you want?

A small creative life won't bring you fame or fortune, but there are plenty of other things to be had from not going big

May 8, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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No such thing as bad weather?

I want to thrive not as an act of resistance, but simply because I am 60 years old, and I don’t want to give away what’s left of my life waiting for…

May 2, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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April 2025

Finally, in a real way, warts and all

Seeing what it really looks like to make space for creative work while in the midst of grief and injury

Apr 10, 2025 • Rita Ott Ramstad

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March 2025