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Things 20/20 Has Made Me Fear

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In which Emma tries something different by offering an important list. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Eight

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In which Emma somehow manages to provide spoilers for her own damn blog. Continue reading »

2012 / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / bad behavior in public places / bright shining spots in the very much dark / COLLECT! / Corrections / creative nonfiction / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / DUENDE / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma is very lucky / Emma miraculously survives another holiday / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / Errata / evaluations / extended metaphors / Facebook / Facebook memes / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / gratitude / grief / hopes and dreams / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / Internet culture / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / Jellyfish / kitteh / learning / learning patience slowly / love / love poems / memes / Milestones and suchness / MLP / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / My Little Pony / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / nonappearances / nonfiction / Notebooks / Online culture / overthinking / perfection is boring. period. / poetry / random musings / ranting and raving / relationships / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Shifting metaphors / sins of commission and omission / summations / The evolution of Emma / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / the heft of cathedral tunes / The Year of Projects / thought for the day / Transparency / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions

2012: The Year of Living Transparently (Part Two)

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In which Emma wraps up her two-part year-in-review post and puts 2012, finally, to bed. Also there’s some important information about cats and hair accessories here. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / appearances / 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 / COLLECT! / cool/not cool / Corrections / creative nonfiction / De-Facebooking / definitions / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / DUENDE / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma miraculously survives another holiday / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / EPIC WIN / Errata / evaluations / extended metaphors / Facebook / Facebook memes / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / False Dichotomies / How the iPhone changed my life / instagram / Internet culture / internet fads / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / Live-Tweeting / memes / mullings and ramblings / multi-tasking / my students / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / random musings / ranting and raving / re-purposing / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / summations / The evolution of Emma / The Year of Projects / Transparency / what I don't write about / where are you going where have you been / Where I Often Travel / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / wonders and apparitions / writing and not writing

2012: The Year of Living Transparently (PART ONE)

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In which Emma offers the first part of her two-part year-end wrap up. Also there’s probably a metaphor in here that goes on for way too long. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / flickr / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / instagram / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / kitteh / My meowing roommates / Photo for the day / Photography / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Seven

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In which Emma posts a lot of cat photos, even for Emma. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Five

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

2012 / A manifesto of sorts / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome / bad behavior in public places / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / Chchchchanges / disagreeable/agreeable / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / EPIC WIN / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / Fear and how to face it / Fish have bad intentions. / Georgia / Hello Cleveland! / hopes and dreams / INTENSE / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / love / Movin' on / My meowing roommates / overthinking / questions and their answers / random musings / Recharging the mental batteries / revision / sins of commission and omission / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / wonders and apparitions

The Ichthyophobic Fish Owner

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In which Emma gets a goldfish, which is a Seriously Big Deal. Continue reading »

2001: A Space Odyssey / 2012 / A brief break from the poetry / A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / bad behavior in public places / contemporary poetry / creepers / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / Film / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / How the iPhone changed my life / ill omens / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / kitteh / Live-Tweeting / Losing courage and other freakouts / MacBook / META / MLP / movies / multi-tasking / My Little Pony / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / pedagogy / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / plot / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / poets / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / summations / teaching / teaching writing / Thanks and thanks again / The evolution of Emma / Twitter / visual representations / What Emma is up to / writing community / writing life / You gotta have friends

2012: A Tweet Odyssey

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In which Emma offers photo-documentation of her part in the 2001: A Space Odyssey Live-Tweet Endurance Race. 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

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

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / appearances / awesome / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / bad behavior in public places / cool/not cool / creepers / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Emma is very lucky / Emma miraculously survives another holiday / family / flickr / free stuff / Georgia / Glitter (Mariah Carey version) / Happy accidents / Home / instagram / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / Jellyfish / learning / NOT COOL. / Photo for the day / Photography / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / Squee! / summations / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / toys / What Emma is up to

That Was The Week That Was: Week Seventeen (AND BEYOND)

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In which Emma offers a great many photographs for the week and then some past. Continue reading »