Category: Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies
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Topping the Top Ten (Part One)
In which Emma uses her blog to respond to top ten memes, which means she is marinating in lamesauce but whatever.
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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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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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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 -
Sometimes things are exciting …
In which Emma talks about some Seriously Exciting Things and gives so many links your head may explode with all the awesome.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of linkage, A festival of photos, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for, awesome presses, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, bad behavior in public places, Bad girls and good girls gone bad, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, book signings, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, chapbooks, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, Department of Writing and Linguistics, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, EPIC WIN, events, Fan Girl, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, gratitude, Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, instagram, Internet culture, IRL Drama Llama, it is ON., Kate Greenstreet, learning, my students, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Pass it on!, plans, poems, poetry, Poetry Rock Stars, poetry superheroes, poets, reading, readings, Sarah Lawrence College, schedules, shameless self-promotion, Sicilian slang, Squee!, teaching, teaching writing, The latest medical anomaly, The Witch Trials, Very Excellent News, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writers conferences, writing community, writing life, writing teachers, You better work, You gotta have friends -
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.
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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]
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