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Sometimes things are exciting …

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In which Emma talks about some Seriously Exciting Things and gives so many links your head may explode with all the awesome. Continue reading »

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When Life Throws Lemons At Your Face, Smash Those Bastards Up And Make A Cocktail

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In which Emma uses a curse word in the title of her blog entry, which will probably make her mother use her middle name. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Two

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In which Emma combines Instagram, poetry, and general misanthropy in an attempt to make the most obnoxious blog entry ever. Continue reading »

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“Lost but now I am found, I can see but once I was blind”

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In which Emma gets all deep and introspective and stuff about love and life and loss and so forth. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Seven

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In which Emma announces her intentions to (finally) (maybe) actually get organized and then posts a bunch of pictures of her cats sleeping and looking at things with scorn. 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

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

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Me Against The Hydra

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In which Emma examines her life-long battle with telling way, way too much. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / announcements / Another summer in a winter town / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / classroom / cool/not cool / Corrections / creative writing pedagogy / creepers / De-Facebooking / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / education / edumacation / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / evaluations / Facebook / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Friendship Is Magic / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / hopes and dreams / Inquiries into academics / instagram / internet fads / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kitteh / learning / learning patience slowly / MacBook / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / multi-tasking / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / pedagogy / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / poetry / Promises promises / random musings / ranting and raving / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Righting Wrongs / shameless cat photos / sins of commission and omission / So long / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The grind / The Year of Projects / this is the end beautiful friend / thought for the day / velociraptors / visual representations / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / writing and not writing / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Five

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In which Emma makes a positive life decision and posts cat photos, of course. Continue reading »

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That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Four

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

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Oodles of Googles

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In which Emma attempts to right Google’s wrongs by providing information about the search terms that lead people to her Blog. Continue reading »