April 10th, 2022
La Kid, Sleepy after a Week in Dublin…

… takes off for her return trip to DC.

April 6th, 2022
La Kid Wakes Up to Sunny Skies and LOTS of construction cranes in…
… Dublin.
December 4th, 2021
La Kid does Christmas in…
Dublin.
December 2nd, 2021
Mother: Heron-Watching at Lake Wilde, Columbia, MD. Daughter: Photographing Beautifully Tangled Limbs at Howth, Ireland.
June 16th, 2018
La Kid at …

… Donegal’s Silver Tassie

…for a friend’s wedding.

April 21st, 2018
La Kid, Portmarnock, in a SWIMSUIT.

Because the weather today
in Ireland is dreamy.

September 23rd, 2017
La Kid Turns 27.

September 16th, 2017
La Kid Currently Surfing…

… in Ireland.

May 12th, 2017
La Kid Plays Golf at Dun Laoghaire.

She took this picture.

September 6th, 2016
Snapshots from Ireland

La Kid joins New Dublin Voices.

July 28th, 2016
La Kid Looking Very Blue Eyed and Blond…

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… in Dublin yesterday, with a friend
who’s visiting from the States.

July 12th, 2016
La Kid Under INSANE Irish Skies…

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… at the Cliffs of Moher
five minutes ago.

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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:

—A day of dappled seaborne clouds

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the grey-fringed fleece of clouds. No, it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language many-coloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

June 21st, 2016
La Kid…

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… fashionably freezing
her ass off at a music
festival in Ireland.

June 14th, 2016
La Kid – Looking Very Fetching – in Dublin this evening, with …

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… her friend Colm.

August 7th, 2015
Gevalt.

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La Kid is as we speak bouldering
at Glendalough, Upper Lake, Ireland.

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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times

George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil

It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo

There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub

You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann

Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog

University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog

[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal

Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education

[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University

Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University

The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog

Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages

Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway

From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law

University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association

The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog

I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes

As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls

Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical

University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life

[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada

If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
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