Getting my sourdough starter going is making me kind of see what the trad wives are on about. Like wow yeah, I’m making something out of nothing. The universe is mine to tame At the same time, I do think women should still be able to vote

CONTENT CALL: Anticipating August, we're looking for school-themed essays at The Pom! We want to hear about the teachers who made a difference, the decisions you've agonized over, how you've handled bullying, a day in your life as a teacher or homeschool parent. Guidelines below. #callforsubmissions

CONTENT CALL: Anticipating August, we're looking for school-themed essays at The Pom! We want to hear about the teachers who made a difference, the decisions you've agonized over, how you've handled bullying, a day in your life as a teacher or homeschool parent. Guidelines below. #callforsubmissions

Did you read Jenny Mollen's #boymom post? What did you think of it? Emotional enmeshment is the discussion topic at The Pom today--when do we cross the line from making a joke to being creepy? www.the-pom.com/p/lets-discu...

"At 12:19 I arrive at Bryant Park. It is so pretty! David already has a poké bowl and he admires my chicken platter but suggests pork would have been a better option. I tell him there was no pork option at the Halal cart." Aisling Marron in The Pom today: www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

Amy Colleen wrote about how moms can never get it right in The Pom last week:

I did *not* touch on this specific concept in the article, but as I was writing, I kept thinking of how @headoverhills.bsky.social put it: people are horrified at the idea of a child being spanked but somehow expect all children to behave as if they have been. www.the-pom.com/p/control-yo...

Thank you to everyone who signed up for a paid membership in May! We raised $128.88 (after Substack and Stripe took their cuts), all of which will be donated to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. Thank you for helping us help moms in need.

thepom.substack.com/p/lets-discu... Discussion question of the week!

A year ago, @laureneahmed.bsky.social wrote a pithy piece about the "sorry you married a loser, babe" phenomenon on social media. It's not great, babe! www.the-pom.com/p/someone-to...

As always, @taylorschu.bsky.social kills it

My latest for @thepom.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thepom/p...

"The nostalgia we feel for a 90s childhood is a nostalgia for a specific moment in time: a time marked by freedom, simplicity, connection with people, and the ability to disconnect fully from the internet," writes @taylorschu.bsky.social. www.the-pom.com/p/was-mother...

"My children’s innocence feels so fleeting and so fragile, and yet it is one of the heaviest things I carry," writes @taylorschu.bsky.social in her debut essay for The Pom. Sign up as a paid subscriber today to read the whole thing tomorrow! All proceeds in May will go to centralpafoodbank.org.

A year ago, @clhubes.bsky.social 's pandemic baby turned five-- and now he is six! Here's a lookback at a poignant essay she wrote about her son's birth during the height of Covid lockdowns. www.the-pom.com/p/my-pandemi...

yep, yep, yep, AND yep

A year ago, we featured this lovely essay by @shanders.bsky.social, author of COMPANY and the forthcoming novel THE GREAT WHEREVER. As summer looms again, it’s an excellent time for a re-read! www.the-pom.com/p/summer-cam...

Well this is lovely and true. 💕💐

I'm thrilled to have a guest post at The Pom today! Parenting is a long journey. There *will* be things you will miss, and some things you definitely won't.

"Older moms often say, 'You’ll miss this when they’re older,' and we mean well. We’ve forgotten what it’s like for miniscule moments to dominate our days, how easily real frustrations can be minimized with a thoughtless phrase," writes @andreaholme.bsky.social today. www.the-pom.com/p/mama-youre...

"Like the Instagram life it mocked, the story is an infinite scroll you cannot look away from, but when you stop to actually consider what you’ve just absorbed, you realize there was nothing there."

"By skipping over the fertilizer that grew [tradwife] beliefs, [Burke] erased the object of her parody. You cannot satirize a shadow-thing. You cannot reverse-engineer a spiritual scrupulosity starting with the outcome you need for the plot." [email protected] www.the-pom.com/p/i-was-rais...

Tomorrow morning. I did not hold back.

Mother's Day is celebrated in the U.S. on May 10th, and in honor of this holiday and as a way to support mothers in need, we are donating 100% of the proceeds from paid subscriptions in May to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank, a practical resource to help moms feed kids. www.centralpafoodbank.org

I've been following The Pomegranate since it began, a little like the GIF of Conan looking through a window, longing to be included. So I was ecstatic when @amycolleen.bsky.social asked me to contribute a piece.

"But I’ve heard horror stories: Kids being disrespectful and cruel to drivers. Teens getting frisky. Bullies picking on little kids. The Magic School Bus baking kids in a cake," @hannahcomer4d.bsky.social writes in The Pom today. www.the-pom.com/p/why-our-fa...

Last year around this time we published some easy weeknight dinner recipes, which you can find here. Should we bring this feature back? www.the-pom.com/p/the-pom-ed...

When I wrested as a kid, the parents basically divided into two sections: 1) the normal people who wanted to spend the day socializing and cheering for their kids, and 2) the people who were ready to go to jail if the 72-year-old referee missed a takedown call

You had me with the picture of Bernie. And, bonus...a relatable read for families entrenched in (most?) any competitive sport.

"To be a sports parent means replacing some of your community with the people hurling insults at their third-grader as they walk off toward the car," writes @lindsayfickas.bsky.social (not pictured) in her first official contributor piece. "It is isolating at best." www.the-pom.com/p/everything...

I wrote a piece for @thepom.bsky.social on why being a sports parent kind of blows open.substack.com/pub/thepom/p...

I wrote for The Pom today about how narrow my view of motherhood is sometimes, and what I want to do about it. www.the-pom.com/p/all-the-ch...

"I am sitting on a hard gym floor trying to brace my back against the wall, watching my five-year-old play soccer and stealing glances at breaking news reports. A school in Minab, Iran. Little girls, over a hundred casualties." www.the-pom.com/p/all-the-ch...

Our own @lindsayfickas.bsky.social is in @mcsweeneys.net today!!! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

"It wasn’t until I started drafting this book that I realized how much I had to say about motherhood and the constant juggling of everyone’s needs, including my own." Guest post by @lindsayhameroff.bsky.social: www.the-pom.com/p/what-if-a-...

Happy to announce I’ve accepted a role as a Contributing Writer with The Pom!

So excited to join the writing team at @thepom.bsky.social! Follow for all my expert takes

🥳🥳🥳 www.the-pom.com/p/new-writer...

From the archives, a year ago today: "I am no cognitive scientist, but I can’t imagine sitting at home until I am suitably convinced that my children will be able to form memories," @laureneahmed.bsky.social wrote about vacationing with little ones. www.the-pom.com/p/i-love-to-...

We've got an exciting announcement coming up on Monday! If you aren't yet subscribed for updates, you can enter your email (for free-- we will never sell it for any reason) at the-pom.com.

"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...

"We have to stop tying women’s worth to their appearances, full stop– but we also need to stop cloaking fatphobia in an empowerment disguise." www.the-pom.com/p/having-bab...

"Change is a constant, and more independence usually brings more calm. The key is not to have a hack for everything, but sometimes just to wait and trust." @laureneahmed.bsky.social's Day in the Life: www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

If you enjoyed Lucy's Day in the Life, you might consider submitting your own DITL essay! We are currently open for submissions from moms who want to share a peek into the ordinary and extraordinary of their everyday lives. www.the-pom.com/p/submission...

"I feel my half tooth with my tongue. Will I get bacteria in it and die? Is that what crowns are for? My mom has a friend who had a toothache and went on a cruise anyway, and then died. Right on the cruise. Of tooth. I should call the dentist, probably." www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

"My brain stretches luxuriously when I’m working on campus, enjoying the ability to think without anyone singing the Happy Birthday song and substituting the word “poopy” every other syllable, but darn it I miss my kids." www.the-pom.com/p/day-in-the...

Submissions are OPEN for 2026! We've featured several guest pieces already this year, and are looking for more narrative essays on motherhood, especially from underrepresented perspectives. You can check out our guidelines here: www.the-pom.com/p/submission... #callforsubmissions

"We are all so reasonable, we tell each other, we will never turn into this stereotype. We will be different, and better. It isn’t lost on me that these mothers who haunt our cultural consciousness, if not every holiday dinner, did not spring this way from the ether." www.the-pom.com/p/in-defense...

"When I look at Kaori Sakamoto or Ilia Malinin on the ice, I don’t feel overcome by envy of what they can do.... But as a mom, watching other moms of young children succeed in areas where I think I’ve failed is a lot harder to reconcile." www.the-pom.com/p/is-everyon...