Category: IRL Drama Llama

• “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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  August 6, 2013

  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

• The Photobiography of Alice B. Toklas

  In which circumstances keep Emma from blogging at length, but her desire to have famous feline companions pushes her to give a brief, furry update. Move over, Maru. Colonel Meow ain’t got nothing on Gertrude.

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  June 14, 2013

  A festival of photos, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), Brief Updating, disappearances, Epic Cat Battles, eyebrows, failed or otherwise, Gertrude Stein (feline version), IRL Drama Llama, kitteh, lolcats, Maru, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, Photo for the day, shameless cat photos, Squee!

• It’s that time again, folks.

  In which Emma offers a visual representation of the end of the semester as an explanation as to why she hasn’t been blogging lately. WARNING: TERRIFYING MIMES.

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  May 5, 2013

  A teacher’s education, Academia, accidental confessions, Brief Updating, bright shining spots in the very much dark, classroom, COLLECT!, creative writing pedagogy, disagreeable/agreeable, disappearances, Epic, Going to eleven, INTENSE, IRL Drama Llama, multi-tasking, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, nonappearances, NOT COOL., Perspiration? Inspiration?, pictorial representations, teaching, teaching writing, The Drama Llama, The Horror The Horror, The latest medical anomaly, velociraptors, visual representations, What Emma is up to, where are you going where have you been, writing teachers, You better work

• Things 20/20 Has Made Me Fear

  In which Emma tries something different by offering an important list.

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  March 19, 2013

  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

• 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