Sara Ryan

Hey, everybody. It’s been a while. Man. You go away from easy Internet access for a week and somebody hacks your dang MySpace. For any of y’all who got bulletins from “me” alerting you to the latest horizontal hijinks of a young lady who I will not name, who is famous for being famous, please [...]

1. First I have to repost these great work-in-progress photos that Erika put up of the story we’re doing for the Snow Stories anthology. It’s about getting lost, and getting un-lost. 2. I don’t have a gym story this week, but I have a couple of snippets: Dude on treadmill, breathing heavily, to his trainer: [...]

I was talking with a friend the other day, saying that writing the long sad post about my father had gotten me thinking about how I’ve been oddly shy and reticent about posting about other things here; things about which I might reasonably be expected to have a certain level of expertise and knowledge. “Like [...]

There was one of those guys at the gym this morning. One of those guys for whom every rep of every set must be accompanied by a long, high-volume groan. The sort that typically goes along with…other types of activities. Now, lots of people, including me, find that some kind of forceful exhaling when you’re [...]

1. An item in support of that new career path I posted about. 2. Thanks, runners, for all your wise advice. I’ve been doing the “add a minute each time at the faster pace” and so far I am up to fourteen whole minutes at the 10 minute/mile pace, and then I try to run [...]

…for the particular feeling you get when you’re back home after a substantial time away: simultaneously as though you were gone even longer than you actually were, and as though you never really left. Is there?

Steve and I may have a new career with great prospects. You probably can’t read that, but it says “Check Left Front Tire Pressure.” We did. At which point we noted the furious, tea-kettle-esque hissing sound of air rapidly escaping. Note that this was an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT RENTAL CAR than the one we had last [...]

I was looking over my last several months’ worth of entries, and found myself more struck by what I wasn’t saying than what I was. I have a lot of what Garret recently called “breathless blogging type entries” and far fewer longer, more thoughtful posts. Most notably, I’ve never talked about one of the defining [...]

Anyone who’s been reading this a while knows of my extreme devotion to The Wire. I finally went ahead and made a Wire category, since with the fifth and final season fast approaching, I suspect I’ll be posting about it even more often. (I still suck at categorizing posts, though. Matt, maybe I should hire [...]

Out of idle curiosity I totaled up the number of days this year I’ve been (or will be; there’s more to come before the end of the year) traveling, according to my calendar. 86. A month of that is parental visiting (split into two two-week chunks, once in spring, once in fall, as longtime readers [...]