PinnedJonathan Otter KochmerNight as a Frontier (from The Otterbiography)Though I’ve pioneered in scientific and technical frontiers discussed earlier in this chapter, let us now consider a different frontier…Oct 20, 2023Oct 20, 2023
PinnedJonathan Otter KochmerOn The Lost Grandeur of Travel (Excerpt from a chapter of “The Otterbiography”)A travel memoir/essay about some favorite architectural “Grand Spaces” from my “Otterbiography”Sep 26, 2023Sep 26, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerMy COVID Quarantine In the Sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Archipelago (OtterPoems)In January 2020, as news of COVID pandemic spread, I considered travel to a most-isolated place on Earth. I did not, but I imagined it.Mar 15Mar 15
Jonathan Otter KochmerA Tale of Two Boats (OtterPoems)One boat is on the ground, very aground in a bog: achingly unable to ride a sky-river of fog.Jan 31Jan 31
Jonathan Otter KochmerEpigenetic Inheritance of Positive Traits (Otterservations)The phenomenon of inter-generational trauma may be mediated by epigenetics. But what about positive traits? A brief consideration…Nov 30, 2023Nov 30, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerWhat is the Scene We Architect in Here? (OtterPoems)A rumination on perception from a literal and metaphorical rooftop.Nov 16, 2023Nov 16, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerMy Week Living in Magical Realism: Cure or Escape? (from The Otterbiography)Intentional experiment “seeing” my daily life differently as escape from ennui about the world. What happens when embracing Magical…Nov 7, 2023Nov 7, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerBoughs Drooping Lowest, Sometimes Yield the MostThoughts on the value of the Mutual Aid and perspective friendship can provide, and how struggles may yield much.Nov 7, 2023Nov 7, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerThe Professor and the Rodent (from The Otterbiography)When working a Help Desk, one must sometimes truly “think outside the box”. A funny and true episode from the trenches.Nov 2, 2023Nov 2, 2023
Jonathan Otter KochmerOur World is Wet With Images (OtterPoems)A poem inspired by divining mysterious goings-on in small towns during my travels and skimming old class notes on Plato and Thomas Aquinas.Oct 31, 2023Oct 31, 2023