As It Were - Good things that happened today

About Me

Ryan Brown is a 20 year old female who enjoys witty retorts, long train rides, and black coffee. She is sexually attracted to writing talent and dislikes bio statements that provide actually useful information.

She is also given to unnecessarily subdividing her life, and therefore blogs about her travels at a separate location:
Ryan Goes Places

All comments--loving, hating, and otherwise--should be directed to rlb30 at duke.edu

From the Archives

My Weekend as a Freshman
Ryan at the DNC
To the Crushes of Christmas Past
Story Time
Where's My Neck Brace?
On July 4ths

My Real(er) Writing

Learning How to Elect a President
Denver Post column, Sept. 2008

Things We Have Forgotten
short story, February 2008 (p. 6)

At the End of the World
short story, December 2006

Never Enough
creative nonfiction (excerpt), April 2008

Good things that happened today

I discovered that avocado and lawyer are the same word in French. I’m not sure yet why this is important, but it is, it definitely is.
My Dante professor from last semester had a wedding announcemen t in the New York Times. In case you were wondering, “The bride and bridegroom met at Columbia, from which they both received master’s degrees in Italian and doctorates in comparative literature, and from which the bridegroom graduated.” Not written but certainly implied: BRILLIANT BABIES WILL BE FORTHCOMING.