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Wendy

@wendyrmonkey

Writer (find me at https://wendyrobinson.substack.com/), higher ed nerd, lover of Minnesota . Nothing I post here is meant to reflect any current/future/former employers… it’s all just me yapping

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I am not good at puzzles but here is one of the reasons I like them: if you have a puzzle out in a communal space, everyone will stop for a little while to work on it, even teenagers

03.03.2026 19:36 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I read all the comments and I was still off in my guess by thousands of dollars. Good lord.

03.03.2026 19:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is a risk you should take, I think

23.02.2026 17:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Here’s a lesson I wish more men would internalize: just because a guy is cool to you and maybe even nice to your wife/daughters doesn’t automatically make him a “good dude”. How he talks about and thinks about and votes about women he doesn’t know matters too and often says more about his character

23.02.2026 17:05 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sweet Lego art from my baby ❤️

19.02.2026 21:09 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jeez, what were the image options they rejected to land on this mess? Yikes

19.02.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My soul just died a little for him... or it would have if it wasn't such a well deserved take down

18.02.2026 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's snowing hard right now, with big fat flakes. I love watching it out the window and feeling like I'm living in a snow globe. I'm meant to live in Minnesota, I think.

18.02.2026 20:36 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Unsubscribe

18.02.2026 02:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I fully agree

17.02.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I currently have three kidney stones. 0/10, no stars, do not recommend

17.02.2026 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0

Short track speed skating stresses me out. So much falling and I always wonder if people are going to get sliced up by someone else's skates when they accidentally take them out

11.02.2026 00:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is one of the Winter Olympic hills I'll die on: curling is A LOT harder than it looks and people dunk on it way too much

11.02.2026 00:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It is so annoying! I hate doing updates for this reason. Everything is just slightly worse

10.02.2026 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Lisa Kleypas!

09.02.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lisa Kleypas! Historical romances FTW

09.02.2026 23:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Especially when you hear that things like norovirus are racing through some teams. I’d do almost anything to avoid noro and I’m not training for the biggest game of my life

09.02.2026 17:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah the particular joy of being a romance reader and discovering a new author you like and then realizing she has written like 40+ books … yesssssss…

(Also the mild embarrassment of “discovering” an author who is like one of the top/most popular in the genre. Better late than never though!)

09.02.2026 17:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We know it isn’t fake and we know that Trump is a vile racist.

This administration is filled with the worst people alive.

Everyone wearing MAGA gear is happily telling the world they are racists too.

06.02.2026 15:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The fact that I don’t know how to curl makes me feel like I’m not living up to my full potential as a Minnesotan

05.02.2026 22:30 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love this journey for him

05.02.2026 22:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I had one box from Costco that was okay but the ones from my local grocery store have been meh

03.02.2026 00:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m in the thick of Minnesota winter, where 20 degrees feels pretty manageable. I’m traveling for work this week to CA, where the temperatures are in the mid-60s and my brain is short circuiting. Like, wait, what do I wear in 65 degrees again? Am I going to be the weirdo wandering around in shorts?

02.02.2026 21:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Yes! It also doesn’t seem great for my normally beloved Sumo oranges either

02.02.2026 20:41 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Catherine O’Hara was one of those actors that was always a delight to see on the screen because she was literally good in everything. You knew you’d be entertained because watching her face was always a perfect performance.

30.01.2026 20:46 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have a list of names if the reaper needs some suggestions. We can crowdsource this, Grim, you don’t have to figure it out on your own.

30.01.2026 20:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Same. I don’t think there is any chance of him getting in the race if Amy K runs

28.01.2026 18:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One of my personal goals is to not mock public figures for the way their bodies (especially things they can’t control like height) but WOW my spirit is being tested by some people right now.

Focus on the evil, self, not the height…

28.01.2026 18:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These people are so breathtakingly stupid

28.01.2026 00:11 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love this section

27.01.2026 17:47 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0