Category: Emma's Awkward Adolescence

• 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.

  emmabolden

  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)

• There is no Frigate like Book

  In which Emma rambles about reading for a while and also, of course, offers a cat photo.

  emmabolden

  June 25, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, Circumstances, Dad, disagreeable/agreeable, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Fiction, Gertrude Stein (feline version), How Emily Dickinson changed (saved?) my life, My meowing roommates, re-purposing, reading, readings, Recharging the mental batteries, rejection, rejection slippage, revision, shameless cat photos, Should Books Be More Your Size, stalled, The evolution of Emma, wonders and apparitions, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing life

• 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,…

  emmabolden

  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

• Home, Where My Love Lies Waiting, Silently For Me

  In which Emma kind of goes on a rant, basically.

  emmabolden

  April 13, 2013

  A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, Alabama, books, creative nonfiction, creative writing, education, Emma's Awkward Adolescence, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Errata, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia, Home, Inquiries into academics, Lia Purpura = AMAZING, mullings and ramblings, nonfiction, Power to the People, random musings, ranting and raving, reading, readings, Teacher Texts, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, thought for the day, Thoughts of a Nonfiction Fan Girl, Where I Often Travel