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Amy Colleen

@amycolleen.bsky.social
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Christian, mom, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Addicted to literary composition. Cringe but free. Editor of The Pomegranate at the-pom.com and writer of essays at www.amy-colleen.com

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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 53m
People like to ask "what would your life be like if genAI disappeared?" and I find the answer "the exact same as it is now" to be silly. No it would not be the same! I would get back the time that I currently use complaining about and arguing against that particular brand of determined stupidity.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was." In honor of the day, I bring you a Jane Austen × Mean Girls (2004) mashup. It is not Wednesday, so I am not wearing pink. But my hair is at least tidy, which was all my ambition. Get in, losers.
Mrs. Bennet yapping at the Netherfield BallThe Plastics interrogating Cady Herron
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning. It's October 3rd. Stay tuned. 😌
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Anya Taylor Joy as Emma Woodhouse Sips Tea
ALT: Anya Taylor Joy as Emma Woodhouse Sips Tea
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was 15 when "Firework" came out and I thought the lyrics were the dumbest thing I'd ever heard. But now I'm more than twice that age and you know what? Maybe I was too hasty, because actually yeah, sometimes I do feel like a plastic bag
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A Place For Owls @aplaceforowls.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great writing
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The Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I bounced the idea for this essay off of my husband while we were making dinner one night. “I don’t know that Mom Rock is really a thing,” he said. “What do moms even listen to? Taylor Swift?” I don’t think he was very prepared for my gleefulness as he fell into my trap. @lindsayfickas.bsky.social
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Is There a Mrs. Dad Rock?
Exploring whether there can ever truly be a “mom rock”
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who here has experience with both Beehiiv and Substack and would be willing to talk to me about pros and cons? I really don't love the Substack platform ethics (I know, I know, every big app has issues) and I'd like to eventually switch to Beehiiv but I'm a little annoyed by the heavy AI push there.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Really loved this essay! Why are dad hobbies so often coded as cool while the mom counterpart is assumed to be "loser?"
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today I met with my academic advisor to plan the last few classes I need to take in order to graduate in May with my bachelor's degree at age 32. Also today, Anna Sofia & Elizabeth Botkin published a retraction/public apology for "So Much More" and the stay-at-home daughter movement. Fitting. Idk.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Blowing a whistle does not ruin a reputation. He already chose to ruin his reputation by doing evil in the first place. The rest is natural fallout. Tell the truth.
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Cori @pnwcori.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The bears don’t have a group chat where they say there’s fresh meat available.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The thing is, the other bears won't tell you to keep quiet so you don't ruin the bear's reputation or career
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My 5yo is turning 6 🥹🥹🥹🥹 and because he is in SCHOOL now we have a tighter schedule and I agonized over how to do birthday presents. First thing in the morning? Overwhelming, won't want to leave for school. Once Dad gets home? Bedtime. Weekend? Special museum trip for birthday. But I think I came up
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Incredibly depressing recession/lack of food safety indicator: I've never seen so much marked down meat at Walmart in my LIFE, and yet everyone I saw--including myself--checked a reduced price and put the package back.
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Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place!
ALT: Kristen Bell as Eleanor Shellstrop: This Is The Bad Place!
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm *not* saying that people who insist Taylor Swift is a lyrical genius (whose work is simply ✨️not understood✨️ by the haters) are the same people who went to bat for Yesteryear and wanted to die on the hill of "complex layering" instead of lazy writing. I'm not saying that, ok?
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I'm Not Saying A Word - Parent Trap
ALT: I'm Not Saying A Word - Parent Trap
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, @howdroll.bsky.social wrote this in fact! guffaw.substack.com/p/the-pet-do...
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The Pet Doesn't Die in this Movie Where Everyone Else Suffers Gruesome Fates
Don't worry, you'll only see humans killed in my movies.
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Sarah 钟怡珊🎃 @sarahejoyal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And then there's something to be said about the piles of moms who have been carelessly slaughtered throughout children's literature because otherwise they would have to be nagging the heroes to finish their vegetables and fold the laundry and then there'd be no time to go off on Adventures™️
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yah babe you didn't see them voting, paying rent, peeing, snaking a drain or using social media either, because they're characters in a children's book and their presence is dependent on and in service to the ✨️fictional✨️ child's experience
Screenshot of FB post: "Motherhood becomes so much more peaceful when we simply exist alongside our children instead of treating childhood like a marathon to complete" and then a bunch of Beatrix Potter, Christopher Denise, and Jill Barklem art with captions like "I never saw Mama Bear doing 75 hard" and "i never saw Mrs Rabbit tracking wake windows"
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No one: Absolutely no one: No one at all: Me for approximately four days every month: "ok so you know how everyone who has ever met me secretly hates me and wishes I were dead? Well,"
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Jeannie Prinsen @jeannieprinsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This Is Just To Say I have brought the iced coffee to the interview which I thought would be completely acceptable but I now realize was the ultimate corporate faux pas Forgive me it was delicious so sweet and so cold
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today is the birthday of the little girl I babysit, and I can think of no better way to honor Dolly on 9/25 than to make a present of some picture books. 🥰 (and schedule my covid booster, while I'm at it)
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Now, there will be a great marriage! And, you know, that will throw the girls into the path of OTHER RICH MEN!"
Trump yelling on air force one
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The Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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.
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Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room
The constant uncertainty of motherhood math
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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...
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Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room
The constant uncertainty of motherhood math
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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.)
Image showing a woman looking at a huge chalkboard covered with math. Text reads "Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room. The constant uncertainty of motherhood math. Available September 24th, 2026. The-pom.com."
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Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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. ❤️❤️❤️
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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.)
Image showing a woman looking at a huge chalkboard covered with math. Text reads "Second-Guessed Equations in the Emergency Room. The constant uncertainty of motherhood math. Available September 24th, 2026. The-pom.com."
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mary Bennet: 🎵 Bye, byyyyyye, lil Sebastian! Miss you in the saddest fashion! Bye, bye, lil Sebastian! You're five thousand candles in the... wiiiiiiiiiiind. 🎵
Lucy Briers as Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice 1995
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Watching The Truman Show for the first time with @hubby2sewistwrites.bsky.social who had never HEARD of The Truman Show before tonight
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Alexis Rose's Shocked Gasp
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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."
Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice 1995
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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...
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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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Douglas S. Bursch @fairlyspiritual.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I heard they are having a credenza play the wardrobe.
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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.
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Jordan @jspray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@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.
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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 · 18/09/2026
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...
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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 · 18/09/2026
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
Domino meme showing "Hannah Whitall Smith attends a Holiness revival meeting in Philadelphia" as the initial domino and "Kristi Noem takes glamour shots at El Salvador detention center" as the largest and last piece
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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.
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The Pomegranate @thepom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“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.”
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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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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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...
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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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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Two survey questions: 1) What is the default Fresca flavor, the original one? 2) Where are you from, generally speaking?
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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
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Pete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNL
ALT: Pete Davidson: How Weird Is That! SNL
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Ozymomdias @ozymomdias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mackleshake duck
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Zoe Thorne @zoethorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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.
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Stephanie Rotramel @sometimeswitty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Actual footage of me waiting for book 9.
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Rose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic)
ALT: Rose Dawson: It's Been 84 Years (Titanic)
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Actual footage of me finishing Emma M. Lion volume 6:
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Charlotte from Princess and the Frog Laughing
ALT: Charlotte from Princess and the Frog Laughing
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"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...
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We need to read more slowly
(and no, I do not mean we need to read fewer books)
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Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No one wants to work anymore
Screenshot of The Independent news article. 

"Mitch McConnell a no-show as Senate returns and questions about his extended absence remain a mystery
Aides to McConnell, 84, reportedly told GOP leadership he will be back by Wednesday after he failed to appear for Senate return to D.C.

John Bowden in Washington, D.C.
Monday 14 September 2026 21:46 BST"
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