2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / All-around amazing people / bad behavior in public places / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / classroom / cool/not cool / creative nonfiction / Department of Writing and Linguistics / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is cursed / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / failed or otherwise / family / Family Traditions / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Georgia Southern / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Home / housekeeping / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / kitteh / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / Probably quite a bit TMI / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / stalled / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / teaching / teaching writing / Terrible unfunny puns / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / thought for the day / training / velociraptors / visual representations / What Emma is up to / Who The Eff Cares? / wonders and apparitions / writing community / writing teachers / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-One

In which Emma captions photos and tells some jokes that aren’t jokes because she is too tired to tell if something is actually funny or not. Continue reading »

A brief break from the poetry / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / bad behavior in public places / classroom / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Facebook / Facebook memes / Georgia Southern / Inquiries into academics / internet fads / introductions / learning / lists / memes / my students / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / overthinking / q & a / questions and their answers / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / velociraptors / What Emma is up to / writing teachers

Doing My Homework

In which Emma does her homework — as in the homework she assigned. Continue reading »

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / aesthetic theory / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / Beyonce / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / books / Boys stink / classroom / Confessionalism / creative nonfiction / creative writing pedagogy / creepers / education / edumacation / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Fan Girl / IRL Drama Llama / kitteh / learning / living without linebreaks / love / mullings and ramblings / music / nonfiction / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / On the book and putting it together / overthinking / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / plot / Pop Music / Pre-semester prep / radiohead ZOMG / ranting and raving / reading / readings / relationships / Syllabi / Teacher Texts / teaching / teaching writing / The Drama Llama / thought for the day / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / where are you going where have you been

“Wait! Let Me Fix My Hair. Yes.”

In which Emma over-thinks a BeyoncĂ© album. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome / Chchchchanges / classroom / education / edumacation / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / evaluations / extended metaphors / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / Fear and how to face it / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / housekeeping / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / learning / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / multi-tasking / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / random musings / ranting and raving / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Shifting metaphors / teaching / teaching writing / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / thought for the day / where are you going where have you been / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty

In which Emma talks about looking back and then looks back at the photos for the week. Continue reading »

2012 / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Another summer in a winter town / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Artie / classroom / Corrections / creative nonfiction / creative writing pedagogy / definitions / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / drafts / education / edumacation / Errata / False Dichotomies / Georgia Southern / Google / internet fads / kidney stones / learning / memes / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / multi-tasking / nonfiction / Notes to Gentle Reader / Perspiration? Inspiration? / random musings / ranting and raving / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / revision / So long / summations / Syllabi / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The latest medical anomaly / The only living boy in New York / thought for the day / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / Twitter / velociraptors / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / writing and not writing / Writing Anew / writing community / writing life / writing teachers

Hey, Let Your Honesty Shine, Shine, Shine …

In which Emma does some thinking about honesty, responsibility, truth, and facts. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / Academia / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / awesome / bad behavior in public places / Brief Updating / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / cool/not cool / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / evaluations / eyebrows / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / gratuitous photos of whatnot / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / kitteh / Losing courage and other freakouts / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / Photo for the day / Photography / poetry / Pre-semester prep / Probably quite a bit TMI / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / So long / That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Nine

In which Emma clings to the final drops of the dregs of summertime and shows you some pictures and stuff. Continue reading »

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / bright shining spots in the very much dark / Chchchchanges / cool/not cool / Corrections / creative nonfiction / criticism / Dear Johns from the Po Biz / definitions / disagreeable/agreeable / drafts / DUENDE / Emma hits a wall / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / Errata / evaluations / Even goddesses get insulted / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / False Dichotomies / family / Fear and how to face it / hopes and dreams / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / inspiration / IRL Drama Llama / kidney stones / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / nonfiction / NOT COOL. / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / pictorial representations / poems / poetry / Poetry as therapy / Poetry Exercises / poets / Probably quite a bit TMI / publishing / publishing (or not publishing / random musings / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / rejection slippage / revision / Righting Wrongs / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The grind / the heft of cathedral tunes / The latest medical anomaly / the poem factory / thought for the day / training / visual representations / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / writing and not writing / Writing Anew / writing life

“She doesn’t want a husband, she wants a wedding.”

In which Emma ditches her dreams of a fancy party at the altar because she realizes they aren’t the point. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another summer in a winter town / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Artist's Renditions / bad behavior in public places / bright shining spots in the very much dark / Chchchchanges / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / Dad / disagreeable/agreeable / DUENDE / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / family / Family Traditions / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Friendship Is Magic / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Home / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / inspiration / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / kitteh / learning / learning patience slowly / Movin' on / My meowing roommates / NOT COOL. / perfection is boring. period. / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / poems / poetry / Poetry as therapy / Poetry Exercises / poets / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Thanks and thanks again / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / the heft of cathedral tunes / The latest medical anomaly / the poem factory / thought for the day / toys / velociraptors / visual representations / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / Where I Often Travel / wonders and apparitions / writing life / writing space / You gotta have friends / zuihitsu

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Eight

In which Emma explains why she isn’t moaning and groaning and shows photos from an awesome week. Continue reading »