Author: Ryan Sholin

  • Day six

    At the end we preferred to travel all night,  Sleeping in snatches,  With the voices in our ears, saying  That this was all folly.  – T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi …but also about parenting, probably. We arrived at Epiphany today with the second child ailing of the stomach bug that kept the first…

  • Day five

    Weekends can be tricky! But the streak must go on. There aren’t any tweets in my Notes file today, but this might’ve been a good self-deprecating thought, whether or not it’s original: Y’know, for someone who likes to avoid conflict, I sure do enjoy replaying every one in my head over and over again. Photo…

  • Day four

    Me: Has a stubborn cold throughout holiday season. Also me: Stubbornly consumes a large percentage of the gluten, sugar, and dairy laden holiday foods in the house. Every time I’ve opened Twitter on my desktop this week, it’s 90 percent people dunking on people and 10 percent AOC dancing. Guess which I prefer? I’m allowing…

  • Day three

    We’re the kind of people who keep their Christmas lights up until Epiphany… Dear diary, today I didn’t check Twitter or Facebook until after lunch, and it was fine.

  • Day two

    Back to work means back at my laptop all day, with too easy access to Twitter and Facebook and all the rest, but it was great to spend a bunch of focused time catching up on email and other research after the holidays. WordPress.com has TV commercials now, which is both wild and refreshing: What…

  • Day one

    https://twitter.com/ryansholin/status/1079909092414640128?s=20 It’s the first day of the year 2019, and for Reasons, I have deleted Facebook, FB Messenger, and Twitter from my phone in recent days. It hasn’t been entirely unpleasant! But also, I have found myself jusssssst the slightest bit thirsty for the incessant flow of information a ridiculously powerful piece of glass in…

  • This blog is now running WordPress 5.0

    …and I am typing this in the new Gutenberg editor.

  • Youth Against Fascism

    I believe Anita Hill

  • Family road trip, Summer 2018

    We left the dog and the house and the garden behind, told them all to be good, and took off up Route 15, across the Potomac, retracing our usual path past Cunningham Falls, into the territory in Central Pennsylvania.

  • What to do when the World Cup is over, 2018 edition

    In 2010, the first World Cup where I really paid attention to my own country’s team and cheered them on in a more-than-casual way, I was crushed after they lost to Ghana in the Round of 16, and I wrote this post about what to do next to keep paying attention to soccer, while being an…