Author: Emma Geary
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Big + Beautiful Middles
“If you want my honest opinion,” (I had a feeling I was about to hear it anyway), “I think you’ve been through a lot, and you’re being too hard on yourself. Exhale. Oh how much grace is given when your therapist says, “You’ve been through a lot.” It was the professional reassurance I needed to…
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Everything Aches And I Won’t Be Ok: On Breakups
There’s one picture of me from the day after my boyfriend and I broke up. My mom had dropped everything and drove five hours to be with me in my post-apocalyptic state. She insisted on going out for comfort food and snapping a quick selfie to send to my dad. I could hardly look at…
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Lost In The Pages: 10 Summer Reads
Photo by Ugur Akdemir on Unsplash I write this coming back from a day of laying out by the pool and sweating through the last few chapters of my latest summer read. As a waitress this summer, for the first time in years, I have free time during the day — something I often don’t know what to…
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The New York Series, Part V
Excerpts from Formative: A Reconstruction of the Years That Changed Everything The following is the fifth part in The New York Series, a piece I’ve been working on that tells the stories of my grandparents and myself. If you’d like to start from the beginning, click here! Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash Kathleen, September 1963 Kathleen…
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The New York Series, Part IV
Excerpts from “Formative: The Years That Changed Everything” Here we are, at one of my favorite parts in the story of my grandparents! The following is the (TRUE!) story of how they met. Valentine’s Day. School dance. 1963. Want to know what happened before this? Catch up here. Photo by Andrew Knechel on Unsplash Kathleen, February 1963…
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The New York Series, Part III
Excerpts from “Formative: The Years That Changed Everything” Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash A little confused? Want to read the first two parts? Catch up here. Tommy, March 1961 He felt suspended, on edge, hopeful. A few weeks ago he found out that somehow, he’d managed to score well enough on the SAT to get a…
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A Note On Living Alone
What I Learned When I Traded 10,000 Lakes For 1,000,000 People As someone who is revisiting this piece only three weeks before graduating college, I can say that this year of twenty-one has been a fast changing one. Most of this post arose when I was in the really hard part of living on my…
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Let’s Talk Copy: Building SERENDIPITY
How Titles and Tag Lines Made A Professional Development Conference Shine Over the summer of 2017, I had the pleasure of helping to plan The GUILD’s first ever professional development conference, which welcomed over 250 women to San Francisco to hear from experts in industries ranging from tech to fitness. On top of coordinating dozens…
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Get Graphic
How The English Major Turned Novice Graphic Designer I won’t be a poser. I’m a creative writer through and through…but I will admit that my constant response of, “I don’t know, but I can play around and figure it out!” has lead me *lightly* into the graphic design world. When you’re working for a non-profit or…
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Behind Emma In Print
Photo courtesy of the incredible Kelsey Lee Photography Hi there, I’m Emma. Thanks for visiting. Emma in Print has lived many lives. Serving as a portfolio, a scratch pad, and now, a sounding board as I expand my work. This fall, I began my MFA in Creative Writing at Hamline University. I’m putting more emphasis…
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