Category: odd comparisons and awkward metaphors
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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,…
emmabolden
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 -
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.
emmabolden
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]
Emma Bolden 