Category: Emma’s attempts at normal life
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“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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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 -
“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 -
Radio Free Gertrude
In which Emma writes about why it’s really hard for her to not bring up the formal wear store Frills and Fancies in every conversation, and also talks about her cats, duh.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, appearances, bad behavior in public places, BOOM., coffee, creepers, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, Doing, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, 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 Cat Battles, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Frills and Fancies, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, gratuitous photos of whatnot, Language systems, Losing courage and other freakouts, mullings and ramblings, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, My nerves are bad tonight. Yes bad., NaPoMo, New Fangled Technology and Whatnot, overthinking, perfection is boring. period., Photography, poems, poetry, reading, readings, shameless cat photos, Statesboro, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, summations, Thanks and thanks again, The Hunger Games, the poem factory, The Secret Life of Objects, thought for the day, What Emma is up to, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), writing life, You gotta have friends -
There’s Gonna Be Some Changes Around Here
In which Emma explains what the heck is going on with the blog for God’s sake.
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A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, avant-garde, blogging, books, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, Creative Writing and the Web, education, edumacation, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Form, Free to Be You and Me, GenPop Books, Going to eleven, Inquiries into academics, Internet culture, internet fads, John Stossel, Malificae, Movin’ on, mullings and ramblings, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Online culture, overthinking, perfection is boring. period., poems, poetry, poets, re-purposing, shameless self-promotion, teaching, teaching writing, textbooks, The evolution of Emma, What Emma is up to, writing and not writing, Writing Anew
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