Category: accidental confessions
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Old? Outta Here. New? Come On In.
This is a retrospective and really the most important part is about Beyonce.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, 365, accidental confessions, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Beyonce, Circumstances, Emma is very lucky, evaluations, Facebook, family, Fear and how to face it, housekeeping, learning, learning patience slowly, lists, Resolutions, Retrospectitating, Retrospective, summations, The Drama Llama, The evolution of Emma, Words of Wisdom -
“Back in black / I hit the sack / I been too long / I’m glad to be back.”
In which Emma learns that if you put linebreaks in AC/DC lyrics they seem very important.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Another summer in a winter town, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, Artist’s Renditions, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Circumstances, creative nonfiction, creative writing, disappearances, Doing, DUENDE, Emma hits a wall, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Errata, Fear and how to face it, INTENSE, Losing courage and other freakouts, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., poems, poetry, Poetry as therapy, Shifting metaphors, the blank page, The Drama Llama, the heft of cathedral tunes, The only living boy in New York, thought for the day, what I don’t write about, where are you going where have you been, writing and not writing, writing life, writing space -
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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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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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 -
The Story Behind “The Damage”
In which Emma has a dream come true and talks about it for you. AND MAKES HER SUMMARY RHYME.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, accidental confessions, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, awesome, awesome presses, BOOM., Breaking up is hard to do, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Corrections, crafting, crafts, creative nonfiction, creative writing, Dear Johns from the Po Biz, Emma is very lucky, EPIC WIN, Glitter (pretty version), Going to eleven, gratitude, hopes and dreams, inspiration, Internet culture, Letters to Inanimate Objects, living without linebreaks, love, love poems, magazines, Milestones and suchness, Movin’ on, nonfiction, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Online literary magazines, Other Lit Mags One Should Admire, Other Poets, Other Presses We Should All Be Looking At, poem challenge, poem for the day, poems, poetry, Poetry Daily, poets, publishing, publishing (or not publishing, rejection, rejection slippage, relationships, revision, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, submissions, Thanks and thanks again, The big move, the genre line (and stepping over it), The grind, the poem factory, The Secret Life of Objects, Very Excellent News, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writing life, You gotta have friends
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