Category: inspiration

• Sometimes things are exciting …

  In which Emma talks about some Seriously Exciting Things and gives so many links your head may explode with all the awesome.

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  March 3, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of linkage, A festival of photos, A teacher’s education, Academia, Academic inquiries, accidental confessions, All-around amazing people, Amazing discoveries and wondrous visions, announcements, appearances, Art and life and love and The Big Stuff, awesome, awesome kids we should all keep an eye out for, awesome presses, AWP, AWP 2013, AWP Boston, bad behavior in public places, Bad girls and good girls gone bad, Bizarre associations and other odd tendencies, book signings, books, bright shining spots in the very much dark, chapbooks, COLLECT!, contemporary poetry, Cue the Golden Girls theme song, Department of Writing and Linguistics, education, edumacation, Emily Dickinson = The Ultimate, Emma is very lucky, 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 WIN, events, Fan Girl, Free to Be You and Me, Georgia Southern, Going to eleven, gratitude, Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series, Inquiries into academics, inspiration, instagram, Internet culture, IRL Drama Llama, it is ON., Kate Greenstreet, learning, my students, One Can Find Me Here (Or At Least My Words), Online culture, Pass it on!, plans, poems, poetry, Poetry Rock Stars, poetry superheroes, poets, reading, readings, Sarah Lawrence College, schedules, shameless self-promotion, Sicilian slang, Squee!, teaching, teaching writing, The latest medical anomaly, The Witch Trials, Very Excellent News, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, Where You Can Find Me (Or At Least My Words), wonders and apparitions, writers conferences, writing community, writing life, writing teachers, You better work, You gotta have friends

• How to Make a Mason Jar Snow Globe: An Obsessively Step-By-Step Guide to Obsessive Crafting

  In which Emma offers a festive holiday craft tutorial.

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  December 14, 2012

  2012, A brief break from the poetry, A festival of photos, awesome, books, crafting, crafts, DIY, Double Rainbow, Emma marvels at the wonder that is winter, Emma miraculously survives another holiday, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), EPIC WIN, family, Family Traditions, festivity, Glitter (pretty version), Going to eleven, Google, inspiration, Instructions, INTENSE, It is ON 2012, Jack Gilbert, My meowing roommates, overthinking, Pinterest, re-purposing, requests, Squee!, The Year of Projects, toys, velociraptors, visual representations