Emma Bolden

The Photobiography of Alice B. Toklas

In which circumstances keep Emma from blogging at length, but her desire to have famous feline companions pushes her to give a brief, furry update. Move over, Maru. Colonel Meow ain’t got nothing on Gertrude.

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June 14, 2013

A festival of photos, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), Brief Updating, disappearances, Epic Cat Battles, eyebrows, failed or otherwise, Gertrude Stein (feline version), IRL Drama Llama, kitteh, lolcats, Maru, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, Photo for the day, shameless cat photos, Squee!
Houses are jerks.

In which Emma kinda comes back from hiatus to talk a little bit about a poem and how houses make her nervous.

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June 3, 2013

2013 is the year of Awesome, All-around amazing people, appearances, bad behavior in public places, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, Cats in Bags, Emma is very lucky, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Home, housekeeping, inspiration, instagram, kitteh, My meowing roommates, poems, poetry, poets, publishing, shameless cat photos, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, Thanks and thanks again, The grind, the poem factory, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, You gotta have friends
The Accidental Professor

When I was a little kid and we went to the beach, I always had this strange and terrifying and utterly disorienting moment where I’d think to myself this is our first day at the beach; we have four more days at the beach, and then this vacation is over. That sentence, I now realize,…

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May 9, 2013

2013 is the year of Awesome, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, Another summer in a winter town, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, Chchchchanges, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, creative writing, disappearances, DUENDE, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Fear and how to face it, graduate school, gratuitous photos of whatnot, Happy accidents, learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, Movin’ on, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., my students, odd comparisons and awkward metaphors, overthinking, pedagogy, Scenes from my childhood, So long, teaching, teaching writing, the heft of cathedral tunes, the three jobs, thought for the day, where are you going where have you been, writing community, writing teachers
It’s that time again, folks.

In which Emma offers a visual representation of the end of the semester as an explanation as to why she hasn’t been blogging lately. WARNING: TERRIFYING MIMES.

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May 5, 2013

A teacher’s education, Academia, accidental confessions, Brief Updating, bright shining spots in the very much dark, classroom, COLLECT!, creative writing pedagogy, disagreeable/agreeable, disappearances, Epic, Going to eleven, INTENSE, IRL Drama Llama, multi-tasking, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, nonappearances, NOT COOL., Perspiration? Inspiration?, pictorial representations, teaching, teaching writing, The Drama Llama, The Horror The Horror, The latest medical anomaly, velociraptors, visual representations, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, writing teachers, You better work
A Reading and A Dinosaur

Are you going to be in the general Statesboro, Georgia area around, say 2:30 tomorrow? And are you looking for something awesome to do? Because there’s something awesome going on in the general Statesboro, Georgia area around 2:30 tomorrow — specifically, that something awesome is going on the Georgia Southern University campus, at the Georgia…

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April 19, 2013

2013 is the year of Awesome, All-around amazing people, announcements, appearances, Artist’s Renditions, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, Google, Maleficae, Malificae, reading, readings, velociraptors, visual representations

The Photobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Houses are jerks.

The Accidental Professor

It’s that time again, folks.

A Reading and A Dinosaur