Category: childhood ailments and other daily disasters

• 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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  December 18, 2013

  A brief break from the poetry, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, De-Facebooking, disappearances, Embarrassing stories, Facebook, Facebook memes, Fear and how to face it, lists, memes, The Horror The Horror

• Tonight. Atlanta. Kavarna. True Story. BOOM.

  In which Emma talks about a very traumatic experience and invites you to join her at the True Story reading series to hear more about her traumatic experiences.

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  August 16, 2013

  appearances, bad behavior in public places, BOOM., childhood ailments and other daily disasters, creative nonfiction, creative writing, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Georgia, I really did go to a school called Our Lady of Sorrows, nonfiction, plans, reading, readings, Scenes from my childhood, The Journal of Seven Year Old Emily Bolden, What Emma is up to, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words)

• “Home Is So Sad.”

  In praise of a very good mailman, and in anti-praise of a very bad set of cabinets.

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  August 6, 2013

  All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, bright shining spots in the very much dark, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, Circumstances, disagreeable/agreeable, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), gratitude, IRL Drama Llama, medical curiosities, Movin’ on, My meowing roommates, stalled, Statesboro, Thanks and thanks again, wonders and apparitions

• 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

• Things 20/20 Has Made Me Fear

  In which Emma tries something different by offering an important list.

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  March 19, 2013

  A brief break from the poetry, Brief Updating, childhood ailments and other daily disasters, cool/not cool, disagreeable/agreeable, DUENDE, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Fear and how to face it, gratuitous photos of whatnot, ill omens, INTENSE, IRL Drama Llama, It’s the end of the world as we know it, John Stossel, lists, Losing courage and other freakouts, My meowing roommates, NOT COOL., overthinking, pictorial representations, The Drama Llama, visual representations