A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / accidental confessions / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / books / bright shining spots in the very much dark / COLLECT! / color-coding / cool/not cool / Corrections / crafting / crafts / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / Double Rainbow / DUENDE / Emma hits a wall / 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 WIN! / evaluations / extended metaphors / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / Fear and how to face it / Gertrude Stein (human version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / housekeeping / INTENSE / IRL Drama Llama / kidney stones / learning patience slowly / medical curiosities / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / nonappearances / Notes to Gentle Reader / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / organization / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / pictorial representations / plans / Probably quite a bit TMI / Quilting / Recharging the mental batteries / Sew what / shameless cat photos / stalled / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / The latest medical anomaly / The siege in the room / visual representations / What Emma is up to / writing room / [expletive deleted]

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

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 »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / accidental confessions / aesthetic theory / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome / balance / cool/not cool / crafting / crafts / Dear Johns from the Po Biz / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / drafts / Emma hits a wall / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / failed or otherwise / fashion / Film / flickr / Glitter (pretty version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / hopes and dreams / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / it is ON. / kidney stones / learning patience slowly / lists / Losing courage and other freakouts / multi-tasking / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / poems / poetry / Pretty glimpses / Probably quite a bit TMI / publishing / publishing (or not publishing / rejection slippage / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Sew what / shameless self-promotion / Squee! / stalled / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / submissions / summations / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The grind / The latest medical anomaly / the poem factory / The Secret Life of Objects / The Year of Projects / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / Words of Wisdom / writing and not writing / writing life

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Six

In which Emma shares some hard-learned lessons and also some pictures of stuff. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / bright shining spots in the very much dark / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / disagreeable/agreeable / DUENDE / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is cursed / 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 / failed or otherwise / family / Film / flickr / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / hopes and dreams / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kawaii / kidney stones / kitteh / Lana Del Ray / learning / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / my students / NOT COOL. / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / re-purposing / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / stalled / summations / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / What Emma is up to / where are you going where have you been / writing teachers / zakka

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Five

In which Emma shows pictures of awesome things rather than complaining about being sick, and then does the whole photo-a-day thing, natch. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / bright shining spots in the very much dark / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / classroom / cool/not cool / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is cursed / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / EPIC FAIL / failed or otherwise / Film / flickr / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / inspiration / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / learning / learning patience slowly / lists / My meowing roommates / Pepsi-Cola / Photo for the day / Photography / Probably quite a bit TMI / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / stalled / teaching / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The Hunger Games / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / toys / wonders and apparitions / Words of Wisdom

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Two

In which Emma shares what she’s learned over the week and shows some pictures, too. 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

In which Emma advocates for a new Web sport: Extreme Eastwooding. 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 / bad behavior in public places / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / classroom / cool/not cool / creative nonfiction / Department of Writing and Linguistics / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is cursed / Emma is very lucky / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / failed or otherwise / family / Family Traditions / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Georgia Southern / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Home / housekeeping / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / kidney stones / kitteh / My meowing roommates / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / odd comparisons and awkward metaphors / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / Probably quite a bit TMI / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / stalled / Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith / teaching / teaching writing / Terrible unfunny puns / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The Great Kidney Stone Battle Royale of 2012 / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / thought for the day / training / velociraptors / visual representations / What Emma is up to / Who The Eff Cares? / wonders and apparitions / writing community / writing teachers / [expletive deleted]

That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-One

In which Emma captions photos and tells some jokes that aren’t jokes because she is too tired to tell if something is actually funny or not. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another summer in a winter town / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / Brief Updating / bright shining spots in the very much dark / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / creative nonfiction / DUENDE / Emma hits a wall / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / failed or otherwise / Film / flickr / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / ill omens / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / multi-tasking / My meowing roommates / nonappearances / nonfiction / NOT COOL. / On the book and putting it together / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / pictorial representations / poems / poetry / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / shameless cat photos / Squee! / stalled / The Drama Llama / The grind / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / velociraptors / visual representations / What Emma is up to / White Board / writing life / writing room

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Seven

In which Emma review the week and offers a pictorial representation of what it feels like to have kidney stones. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / 8th graders / A festival of photos / A manifesto of sorts / A teacher's education / Academia / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / Another summer in a winter town / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / bad behavior in public places / Bad girls and good girls gone bad / books / bright shining spots in the very much dark / classroom / Corrections / creative nonfiction / creative writing pedagogy / definitions / drafts / DUENDE / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma is very lucky / Emma's Awkward Adolescence / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Failure Schmailure / Fear and how to face it / Film / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Friendship Is Magic / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / Going to eleven / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / inspiration / instagram / It is ON 2012 / learning / learning patience slowly / Lorrie Moore / love / mullings and ramblings / My meowing roommates / My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad. / no words / nonfiction / Photo for the day / Photography / Probably quite a bit TMI / random musings / re-purposing / reading / readings / Recharging the mental batteries / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Scenes from my childhood / stalled / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / The grind / The latest medical anomaly / The Summer of Lorrie Moore / The Year of Projects / thought for the day / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / writing life

That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty-Six

In which Emma does some heavy thinking and then shows some pictures. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies / books / childhood ailments and other daily disasters / classroom / cool/not cool / disagreeable/agreeable / disappearances / education / edumacation / Emma hits a wall / Emma's dsyfunctional relationship with Diet Coke / Fiction / fiction smiction / Film / flickr / Found art / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Huffy Henry hid the day away / ill omens / influences / inspiration / instagram / It is ON 2012 / Lana Del Ray / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / NOT COOL. / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / plans / plot / project runway / reading / readings / research / Resolutions / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / revision / Sarah Lawrence College / Squee! / stalled / summations / Summer School / Tangents that should be entires on their own / teaching / teaching writing / That Was The Week That Was / The Drama Llama / The evolution of Emma / The latest medical anomaly / The Year of Projects / training / What Emma is up to / wonders and apparitions / writing life / writing space / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Nineteen

In which Emma fights through her death plague to post her photos of the week. Continue reading »

2012 / 365 / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / awesome / creepers / Emma hits a wall / Emma's attempts at normal life / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / Fan Girl / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Happy accidents / hopes and dreams / instagram / IRL Drama Llama / It is ON 2012 / learning / learning patience slowly / Losing courage and other freakouts / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / NaPoWriMo / nonfiction / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / poem for the day / Poem of the Day! / poems / poetry / random musings / reading / readings / Retrospectitating / Retrospective / shameless cat photos / Squee! / stalled / summations / That Was The Week That Was / The grind / The Hunger Games / the poem factory / The Year of Projects / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / What Emma is up to / writing and not writing / writing life

That Was The Week That Was: Week Fourteen

In which Emma reviews the week in which she almost quit NaPoWriMo and both of her cats lost their furry little minds. Continue reading »