As It Were - meanwhile, at my sister's 14th birthday dinner...

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

meanwhile, at my sister's 14th birthday dinner...