Category: Emma is very lucky
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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 -
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Alice B. Toklas*
In which Emma learns a very important lesson from her cat. And no, it’s not about sleeping or world domination or getting more cats.
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2013 is the year of Awesome, A teacher’s education, aesthetic theory, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), Alice B. Toklas (human version), Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, creative writing, Doing, Emma is very lucky, Emma’s Adventures in Over-Analyzing, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), Emma’s theories on what makes for Very Good Poetry, Epic Cat Battles, eyebrows, Fear and how to face it, Free to Be You and Me, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, inspiration, kitteh, learning, learning patience slowly, lolcats, My meowing roommates, perfection is boring. period., Perspiration? Inspiration?, Photo for the day, poems, poetry, re-purposing, revision, shameless cat photos, Shifting metaphors, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, The Drama Llama, The evolution of Emma, The Feline Biography of Alice B. Toklas, The grind, the poem factory, The Videography of Alice B. Toklas, There is no try, This entry brought to you by Tender Buttons, thought for the day, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, Words of Wisdom, writing and not writing, Writing Anew, writing life, You better work -
There is no Frigate like Book
In which Emma rambles about reading for a while and also, of course, offers a cat photo.
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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 -
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
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