This is an archived page. Images and links on this page may not work. Please visit the main page for the latest updates.

 
 
 
Read my book, TEACHING BEAUTY IN DeLILLO, WOOLF, AND MERRILL (Palgrave Macmillan; forthcoming), co-authored with Jennifer Green-Lewis. VISIT MY BRANCH CAMPUS AT INSIDE HIGHER ED





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)

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

It's That Good!



A typical early autumn Sunday,
la vie 'thesdanienne.

UD, Mr. UD, and UD's sister take
a fifteen minute ride to Great Falls,
Maryland.

First stop (click on each photo
to enlarge), food for the rigors
of the hike to come along the
C & O Canal, and over the raging
waters of the Potomac River.
We choose a restaurant in downtown
Potomac, which greets us with a sign
that says it all: It's that good.













Mad kayakers tumble down the rapids while
crowds of onlookers stand at the Maryland
and Virginia river overlooks. As is often
the case, our threesome is the only group
of people here speaking English.










Mr. UD (all in black, head of the line) joins
a group of other ordinary citizens to help the
historically-accurately-dressed canal keepers
(who arrive in historically accurate Dodge pickups)
close (or open - I can't remember) one of the canal locks.











After our walk on the wild side,
we return to our mum-infested
houselet in Garrett Park.