Category: Fear and how to face it
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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 -
Are There Things That Are Important Beyond All This Fiddle? Or NaPoWriMo and You
In which Emma rationalizes her decision to write and post a poem a day along with her students. Publicly. No, really.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, A manifesto of sorts, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, aesthetic theory, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, appearances, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for, bad behavior in public places, bright shining spots in the very much dark, classroom, COLLECT!, cool/not cool, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, Department of Writing and Linguistics, disagreeable/agreeable, Doing, drafts, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Epic Fail? EPIC WIN!, Failure Schmailure, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, Internet culture, it is ON., learning, Losing courage and other freakouts, my students, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, On being a poet, Online culture, pedagogy, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, pictorial representations, poems, poetry, Poetry Exercises, teaching, teaching writing, The evolution of Emma, The grind, the poem factory, There is no try, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, writing teachers, You better work, [expletive deleted] -
Things 20/20 Has Made Me Fear
In which Emma tries something different by offering an important list.
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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 -
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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