Former Victorianist/current HS teacher. ✍🏻 romance. Rep by Tara Gelsomino. Tell me all your Austen jokes. Free romance 👇 https://linktr.ee/colleenkellyauthorhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mtgtfuejas24A teacher who believes the psalms are necessary for an initial encounter with Whitman can introduce them. But there are other references and other contexts that are just as relevant and might be more compelling to other teachers or other students. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgtfuejas24https://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3msvjmzlelc27I love this book so much! It is smart and funny and wise about art and people and parenting. Reading it is like having a conversation with Kathryn about stuff that really matters to her, and everyone should be lucky enough to get to do that (so buy the book!!!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvjmzlelc27https://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mpcwj6kesc2dI know all the people involved in this story and being friends with them is even more fun than it sounds [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jun 2026 02:29 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpcwj6kesc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3moixanlgxs26Banger of a closing line to this student essay: “The 19th century was not for the weak”17 Jun 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3moixanlgxs26https://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mo3kgip3x22cevery day do something/ that won’t compute wendell berry “manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front”12 Jun 2026 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3kgip3x22chttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mjf7vdpics2sTold a story in class this morning about using my opera glasses to bird watch because teacher brand consistency is important13 Apr 2026 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf7vdpics2shttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3miplmmevec2lIt is my toxic trait as a teacher that I find this terribly charming05 Apr 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3miplmmevec2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mhqqdfhfnc2zOkay, today’s student-led poetry selection was just trolling me23 Mar 2026 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqqdfhfnc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mhegqz7qzs2oThinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have18 Mar 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhegqz7qzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mh6izycaes2iThe most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry”16 Mar 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6izycaes2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mgfw3ymg6k2cIt’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me)06 Mar 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfw3ymg6k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/colleenkelly.bsky.social/post/3mg4e7szrs225I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed02 Mar 2026 22:59 +0000at://did:plc:tpyjs6vfgnfldntrkxf6etzj/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4e7szrs225