"Now, there will be a great marriage! And, you know, that will throw the girls into the path of OTHER RICH MEN!"

I find myself wishing [for the] answer of a UTI. If it’s a UTI, then I did the right thing by bringing him in. If it’s a UTI, we’ll get an antibiotic and go home. He’ll feel better by the end of the day, & I was not an overreacting flake who rushed her baby to the emergency room for an upset tummy.

Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room

The constant uncertainty of motherhood math

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Before I became a mom, I could never have imagined how much mental math I'd need to do about things like pickup schedules and wake windows and when to go to the hospital. (Spoiler: everyone is fine.) I wrote about this today at The Pom: www.the-pom.com/p/second-gue...

Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room

The constant uncertainty of motherhood math

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Tomorrow’s essay at The Pom is not clickbait. I am telling you right now: this story will end happily. Everyone is okay. But the process of getting there? It feels like trigonometry. (I didn’t take trigonometry.)

LIVE LAUGH LOVE is a NEW YORK TIMES Best Seller!!! Thank you to all my readers and defenders, and to my incredible team at Liveright. ❤️❤️❤️

Tomorrow’s essay at The Pom is not clickbait. I am telling you right now: this story will end happily. Everyone is okay. But the process of getting there? It feels like trigonometry. (I didn’t take trigonometry.)

I'm aware, theoretically, that we are in the second quarter of the twenty-first century. Yet my mind refuses to grasp that Virgina Woolf's most influential works are a century old. That sounds fake

I made my Jane Austen / Parks and Rec mashup into a short video and posted it as a reel to my Facebook page and it has more engagement than anything I've ever put there in the last five years. 🫩 I don't WANT to give in to video. I SHAN'T.

Mary Bennet: 🎵 Bye, byyyyyye, lil Sebastian! Miss you in the saddest fashion! Bye, bye, lil Sebastian! You're five thousand candles in the... wiiiiiiiiiiind. 🎵

Watching The Truman Show for the first time with @hubby2sewistwrites.bsky.social who had never HEARD of The Truman Show before tonight

Alexis Rose's Shocked Gasp

ALT: Alexis Rose's Shocked Gasp

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Jane Austen characters × Parks & Recreation quotes, a resurrected Mashup Thread from long-ago Tw*tter days. Mr. Darcy: "When people get too chummy with me, I like to call them by the wrong name to let them know I don't care about them."

I wrote about #LIVELAUGHLOVE; part personal essay, part book review. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it, and more importantly I hope you'll read @kkdumez.bsky.social 's LIVE LAUGH LOVE. It's a story we need to know. www.amy-colleen.com/p/book-revie...

Book Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)

On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things

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Amy Colleen@amycolleen.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm going to spend this entire day tweaking my LIVE LAUGH LOVE review and not actually posting it, I fear. There's just SO MUCH to say and I am VERY INADEQUATE in the saying thereof. #livelaughlovebook #livelaughlaunchteam

I heard they are having a credenza play the wardrobe.

5yo, eating a smoked beef stick: Wow, this snack is so delicious. [3yo], let me tell you about it. It is kind of like eating a shriveled up hot dog, except it is made out of beef, and not out of dogs.

@amycolleen.bsky.social’s review of LIVE LAUGH LOVE (which I forgot I preordered until I went to buy it this week and found jt in my Kindle already) is good but also it’s encouraging.

Book Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)

On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things

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I wrote about #LIVELAUGHLOVE; part personal essay, part book review. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read it, and more importantly I hope you'll read @kkdumez.bsky.social 's LIVE LAUGH LOVE. It's a story we need to know. www.amy-colleen.com/p/book-revie...

Book Review: LIVE LAUGH LOVE by Kristin Kobes du Mez (out now)

On fascinating womanhood, the power of positive thinking, the 2020 election, Napoleon Dynamite, and the domino effect meme, among other things

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Amy Colleen@amycolleen.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm going to spend this entire day tweaking my LIVE LAUGH LOVE review and not actually posting it, I fear. There's just SO MUCH to say and I am VERY INADEQUATE in the saying thereof. #livelaughlovebook #livelaughlaunchteam

I'm going to spend this entire day tweaking my LIVE LAUGH LOVE review and not actually posting it, I fear. There's just SO MUCH to say and I am VERY INADEQUATE in the saying thereof. #livelaughlovebook #livelaughlaunchteam

Left my car window open last night because of a mosquito 🫩 and of course the heavens had to open too, so my seat was SOPPING this morning in 90% humidity and despite my best towel efforts I have now arrived on campus with wet denim shorts. Ask me anything; I wish to be taken Seriously as a writer.

“To be a mom, I rearranged my life. At first, I had to concentrate on her with every fiber of my being, protect her at all cost. Now she needs to pull away, which she does—a little bit more each day. I have to learn how to focus elsewhere more and more. It feels like a trick.”

I No Longer Laugh at Amy Poehler's “Cool Mom” Character In Mean Girls. Because, Now That I’m a Mom of a Teen Girl, I Basically Am Her.

The uncool “cool mom” deserves some understanding, not our scornful laugh.

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I don't have teens yet, but I heartily enjoyed @lilyehirsch.bsky.social 's debut in The Pom! (Wild to think Amy Poehler was also in her early 30s when she played this role.) How much of our own self-worth are we finding in our kids, & when do we need to step back? thepom.substack.com/p/i-no-longe...

I No Longer Laugh at Amy Poehler's “Cool Mom” Character In Mean Girls. Because, Now That I’m a Mom of a Teen Girl, I Basically Am Her.

The uncool “cool mom” deserves some understanding, not our scornful laugh.

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Two survey questions: 1) What is the default Fresca flavor, the original one? 2) Where are you from, generally speaking?

I've lost track of the number of times I've posted a joke and a man has hopped into my replies to *inform* me of or to explain the pun/reference that I have obviously inadvertently made I have yet to observe this phenomenon in the replies of any male friend who approaches poasting in the same way

Pete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNL

ALT: Pete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNL

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So what I am gathering from the whole Macklemore the hero into Macklemore the milkshake duck brouhaha today is that people are discovering in real time that somebody can take a genuine stand for something good without it making them a flawless hero

Mackleshake duck

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last wk.

I didn’t want to bring it up because of all the “well actually’s” it was gonna draw but I’ve been waiting to see if anyone was gonna say something or if you were all just gonna memory hole this.

I've been a reader of the Pom for a while so it was a pleasure to be able to write for them about my experience of motherhood and picking your battles.

The Pomegranate@thepom.bsky.social · 2w ago

“What I’ve learned […] is that you get to pick one thing that is important to you and your family, and you fight for that one. Maybe two, if you’re lucky and have a LOT of energy. But that’s it.” Guest essay by Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social www.the-pom.com/p/the-myth-o...

Actual footage of me waiting for book 9.

Rose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic)

ALT: Rose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic)

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Actual footage of me finishing Emma M. Lion volume 6:

Charlotte from Princess and the Frog Laughing

ALT: Charlotte from Princess and the Frog Laughing

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"But what if I live on the top floor of a concrete apartment building and it's impossible for me to touch grass? What then?" Then delete TikTok and pick up a BOOK, babe www.amy-colleen.com/p/we-need-to...

We need to read more slowly

(and no, I do not mean we need to read fewer books)

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No one wants to work anymore

"But what if I live on the top floor of a concrete apartment building and it's impossible for me to touch grass? What then?" Then delete TikTok and pick up a BOOK, babe www.amy-colleen.com/p/we-need-to...

We need to read more slowly

(and no, I do not mean we need to read fewer books)

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