Amy Colleen
@amycolleen
Christian, mom, seamstress, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Cringe but free. Editor of The Pomegranate at and blogger at
Fondly recalling, from my Twitter days, "How to get weird guys out of your DMs," a free online course by Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
TV producers: We gotta come up with SOMETHING to make reckless, debt-ridden, land-stealing, wanderlusting Pa Ingalls appealing to viewers Casting department: Best I can do is a thirst trap Historical accuracy department: Guys I'm still in the Zoom waiting room
How Jane Austen Characters Would Celebrate the Fourth of July; a patriotic Thread blending pop culture with classic Literature. 1/
Still can't get over how the Prince Regent essentially told Jane Austen he'd pre-order "Emma" if she dedicated it to him, and she was like "ok FIIIIIIIINE but I'm doing it because you're royal and I HAVE to, not because I WANT to," rolled her eyes all the way to Derbyshire, and wrote this
I have to keep pausing while reading this novel (NATURAL DISASTER by Lisa Owens, out 7/7/26) not because it can't hold my attention or because I'm going to tidy my house (lol) but because I need a moment to recalibrate my own nervous system and my flashbacks to the Toddler And A Baby Days.
"No one knows your heart like a sister" is perhaps closer to the goal but have we forgotten that *checks notes* the premise of the story is the fact that the sisters do not actually understand each other's hearts?
"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not believe he deserved the compliment of rational opposition," but ok sure.
Feeling cute in my new coastal grandmothercore top, only to get hit with, "Mom why are you wearing a zebra shirt? Is it because you love zebras so much" WHAT AM I ALLOWED TO LIKE? I SCREAM, FOR I DO NOT KNOW
Someone is trying to trademark the phrase "hot girls read" so she can sell ugly merch about it and all I can think of is
I, a GROWN ADULT with SERIOUS WORK TO DO, have come to the library for ENTOMBED SILENCE, and what do I encounter? The SUMMER READING KICK-OFF PROGRAM? Face-painted children! A clown magician! Lollipops handed out like candy! UTTER CHAOTIC DEGENERACY! What next, a slide??? America! What are we DOING?
On this day 82 years ago, Allied soldiers stormed the Normandy beaches and turned the tide of WWII. Every year on this day I think of a man I never knew, my great-grandfather Charles who died before I was born, but who was there as an officer's assistant on that day. He was 22.
One free trash-picked sandbox and 200 pounds of hardware store sand later, I am very pleased with the latest addition to our backyard amenities.
I don't know who half these people are, but I guarantee you I know more than the chatGPT that wrote the quiz options
Take them outside and let them be in nature, they* said. There's no such thing as bad weather, they** said. At least you have a washing machine that works right now, they*** said. *no one ** Linda Akeson McGurk ***me, to myself
QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.
Ok I bought a very full cart of groceries today which is of course going to be expensive at Costco due to the Size of everything and yes I bought some non-essentials but when you take out the clothing items, cake, and Mother's Day flowers it was still TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLL HAIRS
Me: I heard you had ice cream at day care today, baby. That's so fun! 3yo: YES! I HAVE ICE TWEAM! I HAVE-- 5yo: What flavor did you have? 3yo: SHUSH! I TAWKIN' MOMMY! 5yo: You had SHUSH-flavored ice cream? I've never HEARD of SHUSH-flavored ice cream. We should tell Daddy that there's a new flav--