Category: Photo for the day

• Hobby Lobby (An Essay)

  Listen, Hobby Lobby. You know how I feel about you. But you have GOT to stop trying to make the Thanksgiving Tree a thing. I mean, at this point, it’s just embarrassing.

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  July 23, 2013

  Brief Updating, crafting, crafts, creative nonfiction, disagreeable/agreeable, DIY, EPIC FAIL, festivity, Glitter (Mariah Carey version), gratuitous photos of whatnot, ill omens, instagram, INTENSE, no words, nonfiction, NOT COOL., Photo for the day, Photography, Pinterest, Poor decisions, The Horror The Horror

• 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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  July 14, 2013

  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

• 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.

  emmabolden

  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!

• “And on the radio you hear ‘November Rain;’ that solo’s awful long, but it’s got a good refrain.”*

  In which I announce the fact that I’m going to be on the radio tomorrow and talk about how awful the weather is today, which may or may not also happen tomorrow on the radio.

  emmabolden

  April 5, 2013

  2013 is the year of Awesome, A festival of photos, A teacher’s education, Alice B. Toklas (feline version), announcements, appearances, awesome, bad behavior in public places, books, classroom, creative writing, creative writing pedagogy, disagreeable/agreeable, education, edumacation, Embarrassing stories, Emma is very lucky, Epic, EPIC WIN, eyebrows, GenPop Books, Georgia, Georgia Southern, Gertrude Stein (feline version), Going to eleven, gratuitous photos of whatnot, instagram, Interviews, kidney stones, learning, Live-Tweeting, Malificae, medical curiosities, META, multi-tasking, Mustachio’d Kitties, My meowing roommates, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, Online culture, pedagogy, Perspiration? Inspiration?, Photo for the day, Photography, poem challenge, poem for the day, poems, poetry, Poetry Exercises, poets, Probably quite a bit TMI, relationships, shameless cat photos, shameless self-promotion, Squee!, teaching, teaching writing, The grind, The latest medical anomaly, the poem factory, The Witch Trials, Twitter, What Emma is up to, wonders and apparitions, writing community, writing life, writing teachers

• Dear Mr. Coffee

  Dear Mr. Coffee, I have, yet again, felt the terror of your hatred and disdain. At this point, it’s all too clear: we have grown apart, and so have our wants and needs. It’s over, Mr. Coffee. I wish you the best. And no, we cannot be friends. Good luck with your future endeavors at…

  emmabolden

  March 21, 2013

  A brief break from the poetry, announcements, Chchchchanges, COLLECT!, disagreeable/agreeable, disappearances, Emma’s attempts at normal life, Emma’s attempts at real life (failed or otherwise), EPIC FAIL, failed or otherwise, Failure Schmailure, Fight the power!, grief, ill omens, it is ON., Letters to Inanimate Objects, love, Movin’ on, NOT COOL., Photo for the day, pictorial representations, rejection, relationships, So long, Stationary Objects and Collisions Therewith, visual representations, [expletive deleted]

  Letters to inanimate objects, love, over, relationships