2013 is the year of Awesome / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / announcements / appearances / awesome / bad behavior in public places / books / classroom / creative writing / creative writing pedagogy / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Embarrassing stories / Emma is very lucky / Epic / EPIC WIN / eyebrows / GenPop Books / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / instagram / Interviews / kidney stones / learning / Live-Tweeting / Malificae / medical curiosities / META / multi-tasking / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / NaPoMo / NaPoWriMo / Online culture / pedagogy / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / poem challenge / poem for the day / poems / poetry / Poetry Exercises / poets / Probably quite a bit TMI / relationships / shameless cat photos / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / teaching / teaching writing / The grind / The latest medical anomaly / the poem factory / The Witch Trials / Twitter / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / writing community / writing life / writing teachers

“And on the radio you hear ‘November Rain;’ that solo’s awful long, but it’s got a good refrain.”*

In which I announce the fact that I’m going to be on the radio tomorrow and talk about how awful the weather is today, which may or may not also happen tomorrow on the radio. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Five

In which Emma gets all festive and glittery. Continue reading »

2012 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / accidental confessions / Adrienne Rich / aesthetic theory / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / candy / cartoons / Chchchchanges / COLLECT! / Creative Writing and the Web / creative writing pedagogy / Deliciousness / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / EPIC WIN / evaluations / events / eyebrows / Fan Girl / Fear and how to face it / Fish have bad intentions. / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Friendship Is Magic / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / How the iPhone changed my life / inspiration / instagram / INTENSE / Internet culture / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / it is ON. / kawaii / kitteh / Lana Del Rey / learning / lists / Milestones and suchness / MLP / music / Mustachio'd Kitties / My Little Pony / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / nom nom nom / Online culture / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / poems / poetry / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / poets / readings / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Swamp Monsters / Teacher Texts / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The Burning Swamp Reading Series / The evolution of Emma / The Secret Life of Objects / The Thoughts of a Poetry Fan Girl / Turkeys are squooshy?! / visual representations / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / White Board / Winter tries to kill me / wonders and apparitions / You gotta have friends

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Nine

In which I describe the intensity of the most intense week I’ve ever had EVER (NOTE: actual intensity of said most intense week is not guaranteed). 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 »

2001: A Space Odyssey / 2012 / A teacher's education / Academia / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Alice B. Toklas (human version) / announcements / Another summer in a winter town / appearances / books / classroom / creative writing pedagogy / creepers / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / eyebrows / Fan Girl / Film / flickr / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Gertrude Stein (human version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / hopes and dreams / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / kitteh / learning / Live-Tweeting / living without linebreaks / Losing courage and other freakouts / movies / multi-tasking / My meowing roommates / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / poets / ranting and raving / re-purposing / reading / readings / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Righting Wrongs / shameless cat photos / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / summations / Teacher Texts / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / The Year of Projects / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / Twitter / visual representations / What Emma is up to / writing community / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Four

In which Emma talks about her week and stuff, you know, like she does. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / bad behavior in public places / classroom / cool/not cool / creative writing pedagogy / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / Inquiries into academics / instagram / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / kitteh / learning / lolcats / Lorrie Moore / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / my students / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / ranting and raving / reading / readings / sacrilicious / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / teaching writing / Terrible unfunny puns / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / the heft of cathedral tunes / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / White Board / writing and not writing / writing space / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Eighteen

Here is where I offer a short summary of my blog entry. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome / creepers / Emma hits a wall / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / Fan Girl / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / hopes and dreams / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / NaPoWriMo / nonfiction / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / poem for the day / Poem of the Day! / poems / poetry / random musings / reading / readings / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / stalled / summations / That Was The Week That Was / The grind / The Hunger Games / the poem factory / The Year of Projects / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / What Emma is up to / writing and not writing / writing life

That Was The Week That Was: Week Fourteen

In which Emma reviews the week in which she almost quit NaPoWriMo and both of her cats lost their furry little minds. Continue reading »

A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / All-around amazing people / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / appearances / Brief Updating / Emma is very lucky / Emma miraculously survives another holiday / Epic Cat Battles / EPIC WIN / eyebrows / flickr / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / hopes and dreams / instagram / It is ON 2011 / My meowing roommates / Photo for the day / Photography / shameless cat photos / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / Thanks and thanks again / Very Excellent News / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / writing life

We now interrupt our regularly scheduled blogramming.

In which Emma expresses her joy at being Freshly Pressed and shares a picture of cats with stuff on their heads. Continue reading »

2009 Is the Year of LOL / A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Alice B. Toklas (human version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another winter in a summer town / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / cool/not cool / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Emma hits a wall / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / Georgetown College / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Home / inspiration / IRL Drama Llama / Kentucky is the tundra / learning patience slowly / no words / shameless cat photos / stalled / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / The latest medical anomaly / The Secret Life of Objects / This entry brought to you by Tender Buttons / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / [expletive deleted]

“A List of Praises”

In which Emma moans about kidney stones and shows you some pictures to make up for it. Continue reading »

A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / Brief Updating / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / EPIC WIN / eyebrows / Fine art versus pop art / no words / SCHMOE! / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / Stick Figure Pedagogy / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / The Center for Gifted Studies / The Secret Life of Objects / VAMPY / Verbally and Methematically Precocious Youth / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions

“That Was The Week That Was” (In Other Words: Photo Post!)

In which Emma offers a number of photographs from her week in Bowling Green. Continue reading »