Notes from the Post-It Wall | Week of May 26, 2024
Truth is a shared experience with vastly different outcomes.
The Lack of Hope Is the Disease (Redux)
Oh, yeah? Another mass shooting? How terribly desensitized we’re becoming to this trend.
![I Believe… [Laughing at Tragedy]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1716729359926-5P8Z4MQ16JWYIJIPSAR1/IMG_1692.JPG)
I Believe… [Laughing at Tragedy]
...that the purpose of the comedy mask is to be jeering and cracking up at the tragedy mask.
On Turning 45 | In Search of Balance
Change can be tough, but change is proof of life. For some of these changes, it felt that I was not at the wheel driving them, but locked in the trunk of my own car as it barreled down life’s highway. Still, change happened because life happened. And that’s good.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 19, 2024
Love is treating someone the way they want to be treated even when they don’t deserve it.
Building an Apartment
The apartment is coming together.
A hodgepodge of childish scribbles and posters.
Hand-me-down furniture with a teenager’s baby bite marks sunk in— A permanent reminder of aging youth.
The Pursuit of Happiness in a FunEmployment World (REDUX)
The pursuit of happiness is inextricably wrapped up in the inevitable that sometimes you will fail in your pursuit. The pursuit of happiness often comes with great sadness and obstacles you encounter trying to attain your dream.
When an Ex Reaches Out (REDUX)
I was contacted by an ex the other day via email. Not an ex-girlfriend. Those remain, thankfully, quiet, likely steeped in their own lives thinking of me only by accident when their children or partner annoy them.
![I Believe… [The Real Golden Rule]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1716131875205-MO6TRT6WLIQ2SEFAS6GN/IMG_2569+2.PNG)
I Believe… [The Real Golden Rule]
...that treating people with the same respect you would like for yourself isn’t difficult as long as you don’t expect the same treatment in return.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 12, 2024
Going through two consecutive green lights without having to even take your foot off the gas during morning rush hour (and while slightly speeding) is evidence that the gods sometimes love you.
I'm Mad as Hell and I Don't Know If I Can Take It Anymore
![I Believe… [Haircut Reboot]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1715536767020-O1WFK8BAHHM0KATJSIDW/IMG_2287+2.JPG)
I Believe… [Haircut Reboot]
...that a haircut is a low rent reboot of the self.
The Worst Mother in the World
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 5, 2024
At this point, liberals and Jews who still blindly stand behind Benjamin Netanyahu are as baffling to me as MAGA acolytes.
Is Seinfeld On to Something or Is He Just an Old Man Barking at the Kids in His Yard?
The thing Seinfeld seems to miss is that without those factions telling us all what to say and think, there is no need for the subversive comic.
![[Redux] Body Shaming Confession](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1532524536274-U1ZZ2NUS3HO2R8MJA607/ap%2C550x550%2C12x16%2C1%2Ctransparent%2Ct.u6.png)
[Redux] Body Shaming Confession
I have been guilty of body shaming, too.
![I Believe… [Old Age]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1714923043748-MRWRXIZHR2MG8ECMZYAG/IMG_2105.JPG)
I Believe… [Old Age]
...that old age as a concept has little to do with the slowing of the body and far more to do with the decay of curiosity.
Anti-War or Anti-Bored?
…most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical, the lonely or the misinformed.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 28, 2024
If you ever want to see the Circle of Life play out in real time, head over to the DMV. You’ve got 16-year-old kids getting their first driver’s licenses. So excited, so nervous. With their parents, so proud and terrified. And then you have old folks likely getting their last driver’s licenses. Not excited, not nervous. And without anyone with them because all their friends and family are dead.
![The Pristine City Clerk Worker [Revisited]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/579fa3912994ca0eff850271/1498334512129-ADAJ566E9BHXSMIFHSR4/City-Hall.png)
The Pristine City Clerk Worker [Revisited]
No one likes having to go to the Office of the Chicago City Clerk. Not even those who get paid for being there. The desk workers on the first floor in the City Clerk’s office are of the same ilk as DMV workers.
If you ever want the Ellis Island experience circa 1907, swing into the Chicago City Clerk’s office in Portage Park. The number of different accents is loads of fun and reminds you of the shared American Experience, which is that city bureaucracy is no fun for any of us.