Because they needed the car seat for my daughter, I even got to drive my brother in law's fancy new hybrid. Honestly, walking into the shops and casually making my selections without a toddler in tow felt like such a luxury.

CHICAGO POPE

Good Friday requires that I share one of my favorite classic tweets of all time again.

Faith leaders wash the feet of 14 detainees inside Broadview ICE facility for Holy Thursday www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/02/f...

We are with my husband’s family for the Easter break. All the adults are taking it in turns to cook, which means tomorrow morning multiple responsible adults will take my child for a morning at the beach while I get to go to the shops ALONE +

"I used to try and do chores during my daughter’s nap, but we’ve reached the stage now where I can do things like washing up and laundry with her in tow, whereas rest and book reading are impossible when she is around, so I prioritize." DITL by @beccys.bsky.social www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I mean maybe less focus on having 10 full production Easter services this year and more energy on doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God.

Toddler sickness is defeating us. Our weekend plan is that I will drive an hour to my parents' place with the toddler tomorrow, husband is going to stay to deep clean the house, go to a church meeting & then hop on the train to come join us. Bringing in the grandparent reinforcements.

Okay, I have caved to the inevitable drive through coffee and reading on my phone

Sick toddler was going stir crazy at home, so we popped out to the shops to restock craft supplies. She fell asleep on the way home and now I am nap trapped in the car 🙃

Hey, in case you are feeling alone tonight and need someone to say it, We are OK and not OK and you were really brave today. I am proud of you for each small task you did. Keeping going matters. You matter.

Toddler is home sick with a fever today (after a late night hospital visit because her temperature was 39 degrees!). Last night I made a plan for how to entertain her at home all day. Anyway, it's 8.30am and she has finished all the craft projects I planned for the day 🙃

My daughter has repeatedly asked for a gingerbread house as her birthday cake (she turns 3 in June). I am seriously considering doing it and embracing the weird to have a gingerbread themed party. Make gingerbread men for kids to decorate, etc. Is this crazy?

I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)

do I really have the energy for another round of 'why the Easter elements you think are pagan aren't, and why a load of Easter elements most people haven't even heard of probably are'

The problem is that people assume that the Easter traditions they see today have been there since the start, so they focus on 'eggs and bunnies' and think 'ooh must be surviving pagan fertility symbols' instead of tracing the actual history of the customs involved

Eggs were relevant to Easter because they were banned during Lent. This is why you use them all up making pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, and then make a big deal of them when Lent ends, e.g. decorating them, hiding them for kids to find, and of course making your traditional Easter Tansy

Happy birthday Amy! If you aren't already following/subscribed, you are missing out - Amy lives up to her substack's name in consistently being both funny and truthful, as well as kind and wise ❤️

It's my birthday! If you like my posts here you should subscribe to my newsletter where I write about books and how literature informs my life. amy-colleen.com

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

this is something I know to be absolutely true both in a mundane architectural sense and also in an inexplicable spiritual sense

“Refusal to Mourn” by Andrea Cohen

Discovered a link I have been using is broken. Except it is a link I have used on most of my substack posts and now I have to manually fix each individual post 🙃

AI very much feels like the burning of the Library of Alexandria to me and this is the most overt example as to why.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Make your contribution to #IWD be asking your employer what they’re doing to ensure a level playing field for mothers and WOC archaeologists.

Me: parents the toddler solo from 8am to 5pm Also me: feels guilty when my husband does bedtime because I'm not contributing 🙃

Just thinking about the time I searched a mums' forum for tips on getting my toddler to stop grabbing my glasses off my face, and someone suggested the glasses were a barrier between me and my child and they were removing them to seek a closer connection 🙃

Anyways.

Taking the Lord's name in vain is less about saying "OMG" and more about claiming He ordained you to bomb a nation, including a girl's school, with "maximum lethality"

Thought I was real smart not borrowing any novels from the library until this big editing job is finished. Nope, now I just procrastinate by doomscrolling the worst possible news instead 🙃

The book of Revelation is meant to reveal something to us about God. It is not meant to reveal some hidden plan about the fate of the United States.

Not really the point here, but it’s amazing how biblically illiterate many people are. There’s a big reason why the Apocalypse doesn’t work like that and it doesn’t involve a lot of Scripture reading to find out.

Fear-based theology seeks to control every aspect of a person's life. Love-based theology seeks to transform every aspect of a person's life.

genuinely and unironically, we all need to get Really into poetry rn

One of the clear lessons of Pride and Prejudice is that it's men's responsibility to stop abuse. Darcy is at fault for allowing Wickham to go free with a clear reputation after he knew he was an abuser, allowing him to prey on Lydia. It's still a very relevant message

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

What’s really striking in Saruman’s speech to Gandalf is how broadly (and unusually for Tolkien) relevant it is. Take out the one specific reference to the Elves and Númenor and it is just an absolute classic rationale for collaborating with evil in the confidence you can ultimately direct it.

Having the kind of day where my toddler has eaten all the food I packed for her before we even got to playgroup 🙃

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Hey, what a vile thing to think.

Pope Leo: “We perceive in the ashes imposed on us the weight of a world that is ablaze, of entire cities destroyed by war. This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking.”

A neighbour just let me know her kid who played with my kid yesterday now has COVID, and the childcare centre sent out an alert for confirmed cases of HFM disease 🙃 it's a race to see which one my toddler contracts first I guess 🙃

“Sure, this thing is taking your jobs, killing the planet for your kids, and is notoriously incorrect, but you’re really missing out on so much by not embracing AI.” I am walking into the lake before there is no water left in it.