About Emma Carlson

IMG_6393.JPGEmma Carlson is a blogger and playwright living in San Francisco. She is an unrepentant New Yorker, reluctant San Franciscan and a former resident of Switzerland. Displaced is her blog chronicling the transition from the east to the west coast and from corporate denizen to full-time writer. For featured writing samples, click here.

For the last twelve years, Carlson worked as a strategic consultant, leading design and development teams to build, launch, market and maintain high-traffic e-commerce and relationship management web sites. She specializes in producing and managing content for the web.
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To get us started, here are some movies you should probably have seen in order to talk to me:

  1. The Imposters
  2. The Grass Is Greener
  3. Happy, Texas
  4. Anchorman
  5. Patton Oswalt: No Reason to Complain
  6. State and Main
  7. Dodgeball
  8. Best In Show
  9. French Kiss

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A Word of Advice

You know how Iran and North Korea keep putting hikers and journalists in jail for so-called "border incursions" when they step across some imaginary line in the dust right about where the the lunatics in charge think their territory starts?... (January 14, 2010 continues...)

Santa Lucia: The West Coast Tour

I know you've been up all night wondering how the weekend baking went, so let's get right to it and relieve your anxiety so you can get back to wrapping up the cat. It's hard to believe that as... (December 14, 2009 continues...)

Holiday Update

Nothing says "Christmas" like a nut-covered cheese ball, right? RIGHT?? Well, maybe not for you, but my grandmother always scored one from somewhere and we had it with Ritz crackers and egg nog on Christmas Eve as a pre-dinner lactose... (December 10, 2009 continues...)

Holiday Homesickness

To be clear, despite nearly ten years in San Francisco, New York is home. I mean, yes, of course, home is where R is and I do feel at home in our west coast apartment, but this city by the... (December 1, 2009 continues...)

Twelve Months

Last November, R and I got engaged, so it seems fitting that this November should bring its own news: we're having a baby. I love the autumn, don't you? If you've been been feeling a bit neglected, looking for a... (November 10, 2009 continues...)
 

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On "Sleep",
em commented: Ah, I do so remember those nights. We, too, were (and still are, though the children have mastered the sleep issue now)... (continues)

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