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Rosie Schaap
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Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️

My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country


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Friends I have a lot of shallots in need of thin slicing and I can’t find the finger guard for my mandoline but I’m going in anyway.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The latest on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE:
If finance is math, do I even stand a chance?
No, YOU Do the Math
(because I can’t)
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November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Reposted by Rosie Schaap
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Can’t help it: it pleases me to think of Kim Davis as the gay divorcee.
November 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
FROM THE ANNALS OF UNEXPECTED CELEBRITY OF WHICH I DO NOT FEEL WORTHY

It has come to my attention that I was quoted by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling at the funeral of the great Dame Patricia Routledge. I should just retire now.

#hyacinthbucketforever

www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/in-full...
IN FULL - the moving tribute to Dame Patricia Routledge delivered at her funeral
Dame Patricia Routledge - the full text of the tribute given at her Funeral in Chichester Cathedral on 5 November 2025 by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling, former Dean of Chichester.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
You’d think they’d at least have made the password Louvre1!
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Folks better get their benefits stat!
BREAKING:

A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits.

Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The New Yorker Mamdani cover is great but I just can’t bring myself to share an image with a Yankees cap.
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Marathon day is one of NYC’s greatest annual occasions; I miss it. Here’s one reason why:
Palate cleanse. Some humans are terrible, but more of us are great.
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching.

I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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what stage of capitalism is this
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
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October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This dog would like you to read this newsletter.
Halloween, or Samhain
Pumpkins, or Turnips
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October 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Must I Create a System?
featuring W. Blake, S. Beckett, and being shit at math
Must I Create a System?
And if so, can you please tell me how?
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October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Keris Fox is, in my experience, basically a unicorn: a writer who actually loves talking about money! She interviewed me for her excellent Substack, The Ladybird Purse. 🐞💰🦄
"How does your relationship with money affect your emotions?"
+ some actual health and safety
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October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
New post! Tulips! Poetry! Human folly!

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Rosie Schaap (@rosieschaap)
New post! Library card catalogs. Eastern European poetry. Folly. Tulips. Wastefulness.
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October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE. How do you describe the difference between being broke and being poor?
Broke or Poor?
Because they're not synonymous
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October 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE!
Noodling
And Some Reflections on Larne
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October 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
he’s a nut ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New post up at ROSIE $CHAAP IS BROKE. We lived pretty large in my childhood home. There were consequences.
Beyond Our Means
Or, Why I Hate the Telephone
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October 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New post on my newsletter, ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE!

Milo implores you to read it, and to subscribe. And to give him treats, stat.
Stormy Weather
and pennies from heaven
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October 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've just launched ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a newsletter (mostly) focused on personal finance, by a person who doesn’t understand money at all!

Can I sort my shambolic financial self out and be debt-free by 2030? I hope you'll subscribe and join the conversation.

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About - ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE
I’m a writer. I’m broke. I’m writing a new book about being broke. Click to read ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
SO GOOD.
August 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
[I hate PKs] ⚽️
July 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM