Good morning! Today is the day we keep a single mom and her two young boys housed! We need $1,495 by TONIGHT to avoid eviction. This wonderful woman has been battling unemployment for eight months, applying for hundreds of jobs while doing any side gig she can find to keep her afloat.

Always great when hoi have to mute yourself in a work zoom meeting while your cat loudly throws up behind you 🙃

Just feeling super grateful for my daughter's childcare this morning. How did we get so lucky to have such a great centre, with amazing teachers, AND it is only two blocks from our house? My child is happy to go every morning, and excited to see us when we pick her up?

What a privilege it is to parent weird kids

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

On this day in 1908, Anne of Green Gables was published. Written by Lucy Maud Montgomery, it became one of the most famous books of the 20th century. The book has sold 50 million copies in 36 languages and been adapted into TV series, movies, plays and much more.

I did it. I fulfilled the gingerbread dreams of my toddler's heart and only had a few mental breakdowns along the way.

Trying to figure out why throwing a perfect birthday party for my 3yo means so much to me, and apart from like, the fact she is the only child who lived, I will only ever get to throw one birthday party a year +

Crying! In the Kitchen.

So attempt one at gingerbread house and cake were a complete fail. I have learnt lessons and am ready to try again, but I am struggling not to take the failure as a personal indictment of my parenting 🙃

Cats

It is 48 hours (ish) until we are hosting 30 plus children and their parents for a three year old gingerbread themed birthday party (not in our home thank goodness, in the community centre around the corner from us). I have an incredible amount of baking to do, including a gingerbread house cake 🙃

And today, on the centenary of Gaudí's death (10 June 1926), the central tower is to be inaugurated (it was actually topped out on 20 Feb)

Pope Leo at Sagrada Familia: “We cannot believe in Jesus and make war. We cannot believe in Jesus and kill the innocent. We cannot believe in Jesus and abandon those who suffer, those who weep, those who flee from misery.”

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

I have booked accommodation and organised the grandparents as babysitters for our seven year anniversary trip in September. But perhaps even more importantly, I have selected which fancy cheese hamper we will be taking from the amazing deli near us 😄

My husband came home at 4pm to an extremely overstimulated me and a toddler pressing all my buttons and mercifully took her out of the house for a walk to pick up library books so I could pull myself together. Thankful for team work in parenting and five whole minutes where no one is touching me 🙃

Turning 31 on the 31st today! Lamington cafe date before church to celebrate. The cafe was even playing Folklore by TS 😊

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

A fantastic example of “every accusation is a confession” (Also, I have never once used AI, all dumb ideas in my articles are my own)

Today is Rise's 15th birthday! Now we need to make sure she makes it to 16! Rise, like many nonprofits right now, is in a very financially precarious position. We have made huge budget cuts to stay afloat. Now we are to the part where we simply must bring in more donations.

I will have soo much more to say about this but putting an apology for the Catholic Church permitting slavery in the context of how AI is changing work is a bold yet theologically boss move

I would love to see @annetheriault.bsky.social write for @thepom.bsky.social sometime! 😀

Cat does not approve

Toddler is at childcare because it is a day when I usually get casual work done, but I actually have no assigned work left. So naturally I am completely reorganising every cupboard and shelf in my living room.

Sometimes the best thing to do with heirlooms is use them. Take the train set out of the box and let your grandkids play with it. Use the fine china. It might break. Let the doll’s lace dress get dirty. Not all value comes from being untouched for eternity.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

Had a bad asthma flare-up last night, so I saw my doctor this morning. Always a great sign when your doctor listens to your breathing and immediately puts you on the nebuliser 🙃

What would baffle Chaucer more: the concept of copyright itself or this usage of "y" for "þ"?

My husband and I often refer to our toddler girl as a gnome, because it is the perfect way to describe her balance of whimsy and feral 😄

My toddler is so excited about her birthday next month that every now and then she gets filled with rage that she has to wait for her party. So we have been channelling her rage into making paper garlands to decorate her party as a constructive distraction. WE HAVE SO MANY GARLANDS HELP.

Constantly being judged by these two while I work

no, I do not want you to write for me. I do not want you to summarize. I do not want to ask ChatGPT about my own content. I want you to stop bothering me with popups or I’m going to throw you into the lake

Spending Mother's Day as God intended: with an iced coffee in the car while my toddler naps, sending photos of her cute little face to my own mum

what every “how to incorporate AI in your humanities classroom” article/email/workshop looks like to me

This absolutely nailed my thoughts on Yesteryear. It's very clear very early in the book that Burke has absolutely no idea how evangelicalism works. And didn't bother to try to learn.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

In 1979, Mattel sold toy Battlestar Galactica fighter ships that fired a tiny spring-loaded "torpedo." One 4-year old choked on it, and the entire line of torpedo toys was recalled and never sold again.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

My oldest has asked me before if I wish that I had been able to have the miscarried baby before her, instead. She's always known she was a rainbow - and I've had the joy of telling her many, many times that I am so glad she is the one I was always meant to meet.

(my actual factual opinion on AI is going to remain: you don't get to steal other people's work and then charge for it, you skeezy ass motherfuckers. since I don't have time to deep dive every single model to see if they trained it ethically, I opt out until we've resolved this situation.)

Any discussion of “biblical values” must include advocacy for the poor and condemnation of corruption. Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them. —Isa 1:23

Feeling like a genius because I realised the huge amount of green curry I have in my freezer (that my family is sick of eating with rice) can easily be converted into a pie filling and now we are having curry pie for dinner.

Fun little life update! As of this week I am starting a part time ongoing contract for a big communications organisation. Getting paid for my writing is a dream come true, and being able to help support my family through my husband’s PhD is even better.

“Your imagination is a muscle that must be exercised.” “Creating art is not a burden.” 👏 👏 👏

Here's why I refuse to use genAI. www.amy-colleen.com/p/even-if-al...

Good morning, beloved. Good intentions without commitment amount to nothing of substance. Good intentions with commitment can change the world. Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.