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 »

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)

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 »

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

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

All-around amazing people / announcements / Another summer in a winter town / appearances / awesome / bad behavior in public places / Brief Updating / Emma is very lucky / Emma's Awkward Adolescence / EPIC WIN / events / Facebook / Film / Going to eleven / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / Live-Tweeting / Mission to Make Emma Cool / movies / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / Other Poets / Pass it on! / poems / poetry / poets / ranting and raving / reading / readings / Scenes from my childhood / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / Those Who Walk The Same Line / Twitter / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / Where I Often Travel / wonders and apparitions / writing community / writing life / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]

Some Sundry Announcements and Stuff

In which Emma announces two upcoming and totally exciting events. Continue reading »