UD is... "Salty." (Scott McLemee) "Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons) "Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry) "Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious." (Rate Your Students) "I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere, except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer, and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?" (Tenured Radical) |
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SNAPSHOTS FROM HOME
Little Foxes UD, as you know, lives in Bethesda, an almost-urban suburb of Washington DC. Almost-urban… yet, as she writes this, she is feeling the awe and wonder of just having witnessed, from her living room windows, two foxes “tying.” Yes, mere yards away from her, on the snowy hillocks of her wooded acre, a pair of orange foxes … |