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Dawn Ritter Fischer

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Dawn Ritter Fischer is the author of Let’s Not Play Small, a candid travel memoir about reinvention, desire, and the courage it takes to start over when the life you built no longer fits.

After a breast cancer diagnosis and the unraveling of her marriage, Dawn chose movement over shrinking back.

In 2019, she left with a one-way ticket and no real plan, eventually traveling across seven continents, walking pilgrimage routes, crossing oceans by ship and sail, and learning (sometimes the hard way) what freedom, love, and self-trust can look like.

"I didn’t leave because everything broke. I left because, after the divorce and after breast cancer, I couldn’t unsee the truth: I’d been living small in a life that looked good from the outside, but wa ...more

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Let's Not Play Small: A Memoir of Divorce, Healing, and Reinvention Through Solo Travel

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I didn't set out to write this type of memoir. I thought it would just be about redesigning my life as a solo traveler and how I went about my healing after divorce and breast cancer.
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Dawn Fischer made a comment on Annette Jordan’s review of Precious Children " Omg. You sold me. "
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Dawn Fischer liked Annette Jordan's review of Precious Children: "Precious Children by Mary G Thompson is a disturbing science fiction story that poses some very interesting ethical questions while still being an absolute page turner of a read. Set in a near distant future where the wealthiest families can afford t" Read more of this review »
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Fast paced. Surprise ending. Loved it.
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Dawn Fischer and 1 other person liked The Globetrotting Bookworm's review of Lost Lambs: "I really liked the characters, writing and humor and wish that it had stayed more in the lane of literary fiction rather than veering off into an absurdist plot. "
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Fast paced. Surprise ending. Loved it.
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I’m all about later-in-life reinvention for women. Amazing! explores all of them; betrayal, guilt, self-discovery, loss, sexuality. The story keeps the reader hooked from beginning to end. It’s as if the author took a bite out of each of our lives as ...more
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Dawn Fischer and 386 other people liked MarilynW's review of I Must Betray You: "I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys, Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator) While I knew some of what went on in Romania during the tyrannical twenty four year rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu, I wasn't aware of the details that we get from this story. In 1989, seventee" Read more of this review »
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“When we inspect our fear, unravel each strand of its whole, deconstruct the power of its influence and consume it for our evolution, we find liberation.”
― Dawn Ritter Fischer, Let's Not Play Small: A Memoir of Divorce, Healing, and Reinvention Through Solo Travel