Robin (she/her)
@robindwheeler.bsky.social
Writer in need of a job, traveler, empty nester, Leftist, music-loving Gen X squirrel lady with a lot of tattoos and not a lot of patience. Biding my time in the STL area, IL side. Travel writing at 6daysontheroad.substack.com. Greg Dulli’s future ex-wife.
Pinned
I’m mom to a 21-year-old non-binary human. It’s been five years since they came out and their grandparents are finally adjusting to using they/them. It’s hard, but it’s nothing compared to the fear & threats trans people live with daily. So make the effort.
The second episode of my travel podcast is available! My homebody bestie and I talk about why she’s an infrequent traveler (hint: cats), and we look at how our opposite traits make us ideal travel pals when I can get her out of town. Http://6daysontheroad.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The second episode of my travel podcast is available! My homebody bestie and I talk about why she’s an infrequent traveler (hint: cats), and we look at how our opposite traits make us ideal travel pals when I can get her out of town. Http://6daysontheroad.substack.com
Summer solstice last year with the Afghan Whigs in Philly, Brooklyn, and Boston. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Four Nights, Three Cities, Two Shows, and a Solstice
A year ago I went adventuring to test my body. It got a solid C-.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Summer solstice last year with the Afghan Whigs in Philly, Brooklyn, and Boston. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
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Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
I recently flew without Real ID, and with no ID at all. How did that go for me? open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Get Real—Dealing with Real ID
So I didn't get my Real ID in time. And yet they let me fly. How?
open.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I recently flew without Real ID, and with no ID at all. How did that go for me? open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Join writer Holly Fann and me as we discuss authenticity in travel, concerts in other cities, @stereolabgroop.bsky.social, and Buddy the Boston on Uncharted Territory!
open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Uncharted Territory with Writer Holly Fann
My friend Holly (and Buddy) and I talk about authenticity in travel, and the joy of concert travel
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Join writer Holly Fann and me as we discuss authenticity in travel, concerts in other cities, @stereolabgroop.bsky.social, and Buddy the Boston on Uncharted Territory!
open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
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good morning music.apple.com/us/album/cal...
California Stars by Billy Bragg & Wilco on Apple Music
Song · 1998 · Duration 4:58
music.apple.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
good morning music.apple.com/us/album/cal...
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Representation matters.
Padilla was the first senator (of a grand total of 2) to accept @ufw.bsky.social's “Take Our Jobs” initiative to go pick with them for a day.
southkernsol.org/2022/06/10/i...
Padilla was the first senator (of a grand total of 2) to accept @ufw.bsky.social's “Take Our Jobs” initiative to go pick with them for a day.
southkernsol.org/2022/06/10/i...
'It's time for the Senate to work hard, too': Senator Padilla accepts invitation to work alongside farm workers - South Kern Sol
Last Friday, Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) became the first U.S. Senator to accept the United Farm Workers’ invitation from “Take Our Jobs” initiative by working alongside farm workers in Moorpark, Cali...
southkernsol.org
June 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Representation matters.
Padilla was the first senator (of a grand total of 2) to accept @ufw.bsky.social's “Take Our Jobs” initiative to go pick with them for a day.
southkernsol.org/2022/06/10/i...
Padilla was the first senator (of a grand total of 2) to accept @ufw.bsky.social's “Take Our Jobs” initiative to go pick with them for a day.
southkernsol.org/2022/06/10/i...
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Here’s the full episode jimacosta.substack.com/p/padilla-de...
June 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Here’s the full episode jimacosta.substack.com/p/padilla-de...
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What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period.
This shit is out of control.
Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)
This shit is out of control.
Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)
June 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What happened to Senator Padilla is absolutely DISGUSTING. Point blank, period.
This shit is out of control.
Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)
This shit is out of control.
Another elected official disrespected while doing their job. (1/2)
Brian Wilson helped me become a traveler. Godspeed. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
This is the Worst Trip I've Ever Been On
How Brian Wilson's music contributed to my wanderlust
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Brian Wilson helped me become a traveler. Godspeed. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
When preconceived notions go right, and how they can go wrong. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Viva Los Angeles!
I hated L.A. before I went to L.A., and that's part of the problem.
open.substack.com
June 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When preconceived notions go right, and how they can go wrong. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
We lost Anthony Bourdain seven years ago yesterday. What made him important to you? open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
On Tony
About the smoking, drinking elephant in the room
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We lost Anthony Bourdain seven years ago yesterday. What made him important to you? open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
We lost Anthony Bourdain seven years ago today. Viva Bourdain! open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
On Tony
About the smoking, drinking elephant in the room
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We lost Anthony Bourdain seven years ago today. Viva Bourdain! open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
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Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025.
So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did.
This isn’t a response.
This was always their plan.
So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did.
This isn’t a response.
This was always their plan.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025.
So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did.
This isn’t a response.
This was always their plan.
So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did.
This isn’t a response.
This was always their plan.
Let’s eat a bunch of sandwiches in L.A. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Eating Window Sandwiches in Los Angeles
A building isn't required for great food.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Let’s eat a bunch of sandwiches in L.A. open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Meeting sinners and ghosts in Mississippi. Oxford, Clarksdale, Parchman, and Jackson featured on 6 Days on the Road: 6daysontheroad.substack.com/p/sinners-an...
Sinners and Ghosts in Mississippi
There's more to learn than blues history in The Magnolia State.
6daysontheroad.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Meeting sinners and ghosts in Mississippi. Oxford, Clarksdale, Parchman, and Jackson featured on 6 Days on the Road: 6daysontheroad.substack.com/p/sinners-an...
New writing venture debuted this week! 6 Days on the Road are my travel chronicles. Get started with the birth of the world’s dumbest tramp stamp in New Orleans: open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
Tattoos in New Orleans with Suzie and Joel
Be impulsive, even if the results are permanent.
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New writing venture debuted this week! 6 Days on the Road are my travel chronicles. Get started with the birth of the world’s dumbest tramp stamp in New Orleans: open.substack.com/pub/6daysont...
I have a lot of followers I never hear from. Most are probably bots, which is why I don’t post often. But I’m an unemployed writer and need an audience and income. Would y’all read a travel blog by me, geared for the weird ways I travel?
May 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I have a lot of followers I never hear from. Most are probably bots, which is why I don’t post often. But I’m an unemployed writer and need an audience and income. Would y’all read a travel blog by me, geared for the weird ways I travel?
In rural Mississippi I followed the signs to the site of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash and I shit you not, a bald eagle flew past me while I was there. FREEBIRD!!!
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In rural Mississippi I followed the signs to the site of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash and I shit you not, a bald eagle flew past me while I was there. FREEBIRD!!!
Twice today I’ve had opportunities to yell, “Good lookin’ hound dog!” at people in New Orleans who were just trying to walk their dogs in peace.
May 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Twice today I’ve had opportunities to yell, “Good lookin’ hound dog!” at people in New Orleans who were just trying to walk their dogs in peace.
Grazing my way through NOLA, pausing for a tramp stamp addition and Wilco show.
May 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Grazing my way through NOLA, pausing for a tramp stamp addition and Wilco show.
Best name for a bakery in Memphis: Hustle and Dough.
May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Best name for a bakery in Memphis: Hustle and Dough.
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
April 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 43 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
My granny always fed possums, and she named them all Blossom. Did this for years. Took a lot of teasing. But now I’m 52 with a squirrel feeder and my Squirrelfriends Margaret and Betty, and I get that Granny wasn’t nuts—it’s just that this shit is a LOT of fun.
April 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My granny always fed possums, and she named them all Blossom. Did this for years. Took a lot of teasing. But now I’m 52 with a squirrel feeder and my Squirrelfriends Margaret and Betty, and I get that Granny wasn’t nuts—it’s just that this shit is a LOT of fun.
Every time I delete a huge wall of text in my manuscript I mentally yell, “Kill your babies!” Which I really need to change to “Kill your darlings!” Anyway, I need beta readers. If you’re interested, holler at me. No baby-killing required.
April 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Every time I delete a huge wall of text in my manuscript I mentally yell, “Kill your babies!” Which I really need to change to “Kill your darlings!” Anyway, I need beta readers. If you’re interested, holler at me. No baby-killing required.