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That Was The Week That Was: Week Twenty

In which Emma posts her 350th post, and also manages to post her photos for the week on time! 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 »

A teacher's education / Academia / Academic inquiries / aesthetic theory / All-around amazing people / Art and life and love and The Big Stuff / awesome / awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for / books / Brief Updating / classroom / creative writing pedagogy / Department of Writing and Linguistics / education / edumacation / Emma is very lucky / Emma's attempts at real life (failed or otherwise) / Epic Fail? EPIC WIN! / evaluations / failed or otherwise / Failure Schmailure / False Dichotomies / Fear and how to face it / Fiction / fiction smiction / Fiction Superheroes / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia Southern / gratuitous photos of whatnot / Inquiries into academics / inspiration / learning / learning patience slowly / Lorrie Moore / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / my students / pedagogy / perfection is boring. period. / Perspiration? Inspiration? / Photo for the day / Photography / publishing / publishing (or not publishing / random musings / reading / readings / Recharging the mental batteries / Summer School / teaching / teaching writing / The Summer of Lorrie Moore / training / White Board / wonders and apparitions / writing and not writing / writing community / writing life / writing teachers

Words of Advice

In which Emma urges you to read Lorrie Moore’s Self Help. No, she means all of it. And right now. Why are you still reading this? GO! Continue reading »