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That Was The Week That Was: Week Thirty-Nine

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In which I describe the intensity of the most intense week I’ve ever had EVER (NOTE: actual intensity of said most intense week is not guaranteed). 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

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

2012 / 365 / A festival of photos / A teacher's education / Academia / accidental confessions / Alice B. Toklas (feline version) / Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions / bad behavior in public places / classroom / cool/not cool / creative writing pedagogy / Department of Writing and Linguistics / disagreeable/agreeable / education / edumacation / Epic Cat Battles / eyebrows / flickr / Free to Be You and Me / Georgia / Georgia Southern / Gertrude Stein (feline version) / gratuitous photos of whatnot / I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows / Inquiries into academics / instagram / It is ON 2012 / It's the end of the world as we know it / kitteh / learning / lolcats / Lorrie Moore / Losing courage and other freakouts / mullings and ramblings / Mustachio'd Kitties / My meowing roommates / my students / New Fangled Technology and Whatnot / pedagogy / Photo for the day / Photography / ranting and raving / reading / readings / sacrilicious / shameless cat photos / Squee! / Stick figures ARE art / teaching / teaching writing / Terrible unfunny puns / That Was The Week That Was / The evolution of Emma / the genre line (and stepping over it) / the heft of cathedral tunes / Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl / White Board / writing and not writing / writing space / writing teachers

That Was The Week That Was: Week Eighteen

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Here is where I offer a short summary of my blog entry. Continue reading »

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Words of Advice

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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 »