In Memorial sign for someone, nailed to the beach access ramp: "We love you to the beach and back." @amycolleen.bsky.social: "That doesn't mean as much when you have a beachfront house..."
Amy Colleen
@amycolleen.bsky.social
Christian, mom, seamstress, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Cringe but free. Editor of The Pomegranate at http://the-pom.com and blogger at http://www.amy-colleen.com
do not recommend AI tools to me I will scream
We are getting really close to the 2k subscriber mark. When we hit it, we'll choose a free subscriber at random from our "most engaged" page to comp for a year! the-pom.com
Interaction I’m tired of goes as follows Person 1: We should not normalize women feeling like they need to use fillers and injections to feel good about themselves Person 2 (has Botox): Wowwwww so now we’re telling women what to do with their bodies? I thought you liked feminism
The Pomegranate@thepom.bsky.social · 6d ago"You can erase all of the traits of your foremothers, and you can still be just short of the ideal," writes @lindsayfickas.bsky.social for paid subscribers today. www.the-pom.com/p/i-am-sick-...
Taking two small children to Costco is really very easy. Place them (the children) in a shopping cart, choose items from the warehouse, and pay for them (the items). Select dinner options from the food court kiosk, eat, and go home. By @amycolleen.bsky.social medium.com/frazzled/how...
How to Wrangle Two Kids and a Cart Full of Groceries in a Costco Bathroom While Your Life Flashes…
With apologies to Marjorie Priceman and the traditional Catholic understanding of the Seven Deadly Sins
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"MOM that does NOT look like a corythosaurus crest! A corythosaurus is a HADROSAUR and has a SMOOTH CREST, not SPIKY. You made it look SPIKY" Me, trying to cut a simple Mohawk shape in my 5yo's hair for crazy hair day at VBS:
Grumpy Cat's Signature Scowl
ALT: Grumpy Cat's Signature Scowl
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Actual footage of me after wrangling 20 kindergartners for VBS and then 7 children of varying ages for post-VBS aftercare and then coming home with my own 2 kids who took the Loudest Bath and now want eleventeen drinks of water and forty-five stories and are somehow still awake at 9:21 p.m.
Exhausted Baby Crying
ALT: Exhausted Baby Crying
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Idk I’m personally living for the petty Jen Hamilton arc
as a general thing I think that outside of things like child abuse or enabling your kid to be an asshole a lot of parental judgments should be toned down because what is a genuinely important parenting choice for your child can be completely wrong for someone else's they are all SO different
I have a personal belief that the more a person is a nerd for something: dinosaurs, The Odyssey, etc, the less likely they are to enjoy a popular entertainment version of that thing.
I'm not the right person to write a meaningful opinion on The Odyssey. I haven't read it since high school, and I'm no scholar of Greek literature. But though I don't think I would watch it again (endless carnage is never my cup of tea) I appreciated the fact that it was so tonally dark. Maybe this
5yo: Mom, I am going to be something VERY SCARY for Halloween this year. It will be the thing I am MOST SCARED OF. Me, preparing to veto anything too spookily supernatural: Well, -- 5yo: So! I am going TO BE! a FIRE ANT.
"ChatGPT/Claude/Grok/the robot monster we made out of corroded batteries and human skin are here to stay. Get used to them!" No. No, I don't think I will. www.amy-colleen.com/p/how-to-tel...
How to tell if a piece of writing is AI, with your own human brain
There's no definitive test. But here are the traits you can look out for.
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If I had a nickel for every time an ancient classic of Greek mythology was reinterpreted for a Great Depression setting I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.
Are you a Bluey Fan, a Bluey Hater, or a secret third thing? @headoverhills.bsky.social makes her debut at The Pom today with @amycolleen.bsky.social to break down the good and iffy of the show! www.the-pom.com/p/bluey-is-n...
Bluey Is Not a Perfect Show (and that's okay)
The cartoon dogs may have stolen our hearts, but we’re not taking (all our) parenting lessons from them.
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I don't like saying "not all men" but... it feels irresistible here. Context matters. 😂 This is the toxic masculinity brouhaha all over again. ("I'm against toxic masculinity." "I can't believe you hate the very idea of masculinity!") [Screenshot from a quote of one of my posts on Substack Notes]
Constantly torn between wanting my curly hair to look good and being unwilling to take on another part-time job
There's a little piece of personal news buried in this (re)introduction, and you heard it here first. www.amy-colleen.com/p/hey-guys-w...
hey guys welcome (back) to my channel
New week, new subscribers, new introduction
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There's a little piece of personal news buried in this (re)introduction, and you heard it here first. www.amy-colleen.com/p/hey-guys-w...
hey guys welcome (back) to my channel
New week, new subscribers, new introduction
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Fondly recalling, from my Twitter days, "How to get weird guys out of your DMs," a free online course by Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
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"Hey gorgeous [heart emoji] would you like to be my sugar baby for $500 twice a week for your financial needs"
"I beg your pardon? My financial needs as you call them are nonexistent. Since the unfortunate passing of Sir Lewis de Bourgh I have maintained his estate with increase each year."
"Okay
Would you like to be my texting buddy"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oxyet6m52fvlleahsb5f4vwh/bafkreibfzfutj64qfxrt7cbw5suejjaimnczxkgzgk7df6secggguvhhfq)
As always, @taylorschu.bsky.social kills it
The Pomegranate@thepom.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The nostalgia we feel for a 90s childhood is a nostalgia for a specific moment in time: a time marked by freedom, simplicity, connection with people, and the ability to disconnect fully from the internet," writes @taylorschu.bsky.social. www.the-pom.com/p/was-mother...
"Well, my parenting philosophy, as a mother of boys, has always been that of learning what is good and beautiful and true. Humor, for instance, relies on wit and wonder, never scatologi--" "MOM MOM MOM MOM LISTEN TO THE STORY I MADE UP. Once there was a superhero and his name was Poopy Butthole--"
Honestly, one of the biggest reasons I don’t want to get Botox is because I want people to know when I’m judging them.
Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”
People today will be like, "ugh, the 19th century was so oppressive, Jane Austen's novels are representative of a reductive marriage market, we shouldn't read them or assign them in school" and then tune in to a reality show in which grown adults compete for the professed affections of a rich person
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well I heard there was a cyclospore that found its way to the grocery store but you never eat lettuce before it goes bad, do ya well we needed a scapegoat for it all and Taco Bell, it took the fall but Taylor Farms was the one who sold it to ya hallelujah
I wrote this piece a year ago for paid subscribers and now it's unlocked for everyone. www.amy-colleen.com/p/what-jane-...
What Jane Austen and Terry Pratchett Have in Common
Satire with courage, brain, and heart. (Lions, tigers, and bears not included.)
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