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)

Posted on December 31, 2012 by emmabolden • 1 Comment

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 »

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / accidental confessions / aesthetic theory / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / balance / books / bright shining spots in the very much dark / Chchchchanges / COLLECT! / contemporary poetry / cool/not cool / Corrections / disagreeable/agreeable / DUENDE / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / Errata / failed or otherwise / Fan Girl / Fear and how to face it / graduate school / inspiration / Jack Gilbert / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / MFA / mullings and ramblings / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / On being a poet / poems / Poems I should probably pay a lot more attention to / poetry / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / poets / Poets I should probably pay more attention to / Poor decisions / Probably quite a bit TMI / ranting and raving / reading / readings / Righting Wrongs / The evolution of Emma / The Year Things Went Too Far / thought for the day / training / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / Words of Wisdom / writing teachers

Jack Gilbert and Graduate School Emma: A Cautionary Tale

Posted on November 20, 2012 by emmabolden • 2 Comments

In which Emma examines the mind of Graduate School Emma, who, because she didn’t appreciate Jack Gilbert, clearly had lost her mind. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / All-around amazing people / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another winter in a summer town / appearances / awesome / bad behavior in public places / bright shining spots in the very much dark / Chchchchanges / classroom / cool/not cool / Cue the Golden Girls theme song / definitions / disappearances / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma marvels at the wonder that is winter / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Epic Cat Battles / Facebook / Facebook memes / flickr / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Hipstamatic / Home / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / instagram / It is ON 2012 / learning / memes / Mr. Turkey / mullings and ramblings / My addiction to terrible television / My meowing roommates / nonappearances / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / poem for the day / Poem of the Day! / poems / poetry / Poetry Rock Stars / poetry superheroes / poets / Pretty glimpses / random musings / ranting and raving / re-purposing / Recharging the mental batteries / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Shifting metaphors / Squee! / summations / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / Thanks and thanks again / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The grind / the heft of cathedral tunes / the poem factory / The Secret Life of Objects / Turkeys are squooshy?! / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / writers conferences / writing community / writing life / writing teachers / You gotta have friends

That Was The Week That Was: Week Forty-Two

Posted on November 16, 2012 by emmabolden • Leave a comment

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

2012 / A brief break from the poetry / A manifesto of sorts / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / balance / bright shining spots in the very much dark / COLLECT! / disagreeable/agreeable / DUENDE / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / Errata / evaluations / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / False Dichotomies / Fan Girl / Fear and how to face it / Free to Be You and Me / hopes and dreams / inspiration / Lana Del Ray / Lana Del Rey / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / love / Movin' on / mullings and ramblings / music / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / overthinking / perfection is boring. period. / plans / Pop Music / questions and their answers / random musings / ranting and raving / relationships / So long / Thanatopsis / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / thought for the day / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / Words of Wisdom

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

Posted on October 16, 2012 by emmabolden • 2 Comments

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

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / aesthetic theory / appearances / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / disappearances / drafts / Emma's Awkward Adolescence / Emma's Adventures in Over-Analyzing / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / family / fashion / Fear and how to face it / Free to Be You and Me / hopes and dreams / housekeeping / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / Huffy Henry hid the day away / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / inspiration / learning patience slowly / mullings and ramblings / muumuus / nonappearances / On being a poet / overthinking / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photography / pictorial representations / poetry / poets / Probably quite a bit TMI / rambling about verb tenses / random musings / ranting and raving / shallow thoughts on shoes and the like / The grind / the poem factory / The siege in the room / thought for the day / training / visual representations / writing life / writing room / You better work

I’m a Poet, But I Sure Don’t Know It.

Posted on September 9, 2012 by emmabolden • Leave a comment

In which Emma explains why she isn’t a poet and why she has a particular attachment to hideous house-dresses. Continue reading »

A festival of photos / A teacher's education / awesome / bad behavior in public places / bright shining spots in the very much dark / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / cool/not cool / Creative Writing and the Web / Dad / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is cursed / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / EPIC FAIL / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / family / Fear and how to face it / Going to eleven / How the iPhone changed my life / ill omens / instagram / Internet culture / internet fads / IRL Drama Llama / kidney stones / learning / learning patience slowly / lists / memes / Mission to Make Emma Cool / multi-tasking / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / Online culture / Photo for the day / Poor decisions / ranting and raving / stalled / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / teaching / teaching writing / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The Head Trauma Drama Llama / The latest medical anomaly / thought for the day / velociraptors / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been

The Great Kidney Stone War of 2012: Battle Eastwood

Posted on September 3, 2012 by emmabolden • 1 Comment

In which Emma advocates for a new Web sport: Extreme Eastwooding. Continue reading »

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