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)

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 / 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

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

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

A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / accidental confessions / aesthetic theory / bad behavior in public places / balance / Barbecue / classroom / Confessionalism / cool/not cool / creative nonfiction / creative writing pedagogy / creepers / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Emma miraculously survives another holiday / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / evaluations / extended metaphors / Fear and how to face it / Fiction / fiction smiction / Happy accidents / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / learning / learning patience slowly / mullings and ramblings / My meowing roommates / nonfiction / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / plot / Shifting metaphors / sins of commission and omission / teaching / teaching writing / The evolution of Emma / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / where are you going where have you been / wonders and apparitions / writing teachers / [expletive deleted]

The Devil’s in the Details

In which Emma recounts the tale of a poor decision and somehow manages to avoid calling all her friends and talking about how her cats are going to eat her face. Continue reading »

Those Who Walk The Same Line / Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words) / appearances / poem challenge / the poem factory / writing life / wonders and apparitions / teaching / revision / training / poem for the day / bad behavior in public places / perfection is boring. period. / inspiration / NaPoWriMo / Failure Schmailure / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Squee! / Very Excellent News / announcements / Chchchchanges / where are you going where have you been / pedagogy / disagreeable/agreeable / edumacation / Losing courage and other freakouts / A teacher's education / Inquiries into academics / Writing Anew / learning patience slowly / re-purposing / sins of commission and omission / You gotta have friends / NaPoMo / Poem of the Day! / Emma is very lucky / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / EPIC WIN / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Poetry as therapy / Going to eleven / writing and not writing / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / creative writing pedagogy / The grind / Academia / plans / learning / classroom / teaching writing / writing teachers / education / writing community / Fear and how to face it / poets / The evolution of Emma / Georgia / internet fads / poetry / What Emma is up to / Georgia Southern / Thanks and thanks again / The Year of Projects / 2012 / It is ON 2012 / poems

Breeding Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

In which Emma shares her plans to write and write and write some more in celebration of National Poetry Month. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A teacher's education / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome / bad behavior in public places / books / classroom / Comp prompts / Composition / cool/not cool / Department of Writing and Linguistics / education / edumacation / Emma's Awkward Adolescence / filet o'fish / flickr / Forms of Poetry / Found art / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Happy accidents / How the iPhone changed my life / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / instagram / internet fads / It is ON 2012 / learning / My meowing roommates / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / reading / readings / research / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / rock tumbling / sacrilicious / Scenes from my childhood / sins of commission and omission / Squee! / Stick Figure Pedagogy / Stick figures ARE art / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The grind / the poem factory / The Year of Projects / What Emma is up to / writing and not writing / writing life / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Eleven

In which Emma makes a pact with Emma to never say she had the busiest week ever again. Continue reading »

A festival of linkage / A teacher's education / Alice Fulton / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Blizzard of the Month / books / edumacation / Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate / Emma is cursed / Emma is very lucky / Emma's theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry / Hot chocolate is heaven / How Doris Lessing changed my life / How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life / IRL Drama Llama / Language systems / Love the marshmallow / mullings and ramblings / Poetry Rock Stars / re-purposing / readings / Recharging the mental batteries / sins of commission and omission / stalled / summations / The Golden Notebook / The latest medical anomaly / thought for the day

On the ninth day of blogging, I read some books and drank some tea . . .

In which Emma reflects on her bookshelves and her lies about drinking tea. Continue reading »

accidental confessions / Another winter in a summer town / Bette Davis / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / Blanche did I tell you there were rats in the cellar? / books / Fine art versus pop art / Inquiries into academics / Language systems / love poems / mullings and ramblings / Pepsi-Cola / random musings / ranting and raving / sins of commission and omission / Snow days / stalled / teaching / The confessional I / the confessionals

“… the experience of each new age requires a new confession …”

In which Emma discusses confession, autobiography, Rachel Zucker, Benjamin Franklin, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Pepsi-Cola, and lumberman’s jackets. Continue reading »