Sara Ryan

– The comfortable and familiar with the unknown and surprising – Deliberate plans with serendipitous spontaneity – Solitude with company – Travel with home – Online with offline – and of course the usual: day job with writing, sleep with writing, exercise with writing, etc. At this time when a certain amount of reflection seems [...]

In case you were wondering: If you have made an assay at banana frosting, but have managed to use a disproportionate amount of bananas and butter in relation to the amount of powdered sugar in the house, resulting in a texture not remotely similar to frosting, if you: Add flour, baking soda, and spices of [...]

I finally got around to uploading more photos to Flickr. Popular subjects include architectural detail, street art, window displays, public transportation, the really cool hotel we stayed at in Rouen, the beach at Saint-Malo. Also: occasional evidence that Steve and I were present.

In lieu of a substantial, thought-provoking post, perhaps reflecting on the year, I present THE SPACE DOG, created when I was in second grade, interspersed with the sort of comments that might be offered by a severe critique partner. Is this about Laika? If not, title should be changed. And do you want your readers [...]

Sugarplum Squeampunk (Especially “On This Odd Day.”) Frank Talk With Lady Gaga (Can’t stop listening to her lately, and I’d been looking for a long-form article besides the ones that attempt to explicate her status as a tool of the Illuminati.) The Danger of A Single Story (Some of you have probably already seen this [...]

There’s a new post up over at Chasing Ray with Part 1 of the What A Girl Wants Gang’s holiday gift book recommendations, and as usual this inspires/reminds me to repost one of my responses to an earlier WAGW question over here. Colleen asked: “Are girls missing out on something by not having a kick [...]