Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 6, 2025
• Mattel has released a new Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes and comes with her own glucose monitor. The next doll to be released is Meningioma Barbie. She comes with insurance, but her insurance doesn’t cover her treatment. Being released simultaneously is a Luigi Mangione doll.
• We’re never fully understood by anyone. No matter how well someone knows us, there’s always a nugget of secrecy deep within. We may not even fully understand what’s being locked up, and that’s what keeps life interesting. That unending adventure to unlock our own secrets.
• If you stay loose, you’ll stay loose. Always remain flexible. It makes getting out of bed and dealing with idiots much easier.
• Middle-life is not for the weak or meek. It’s a perfect storm of new medical concerns, ailing parents, failing marriages, stalled careers, and a crippling confusion over your sense of self. If you’re fortunate enough to have a partner going through it with you, it’s best that you not beat each other down, but lean on one another. Like Forrest and Bubba, that way you don’t have to sleep with your heads in the muuuuud.
• Despite the life’s inevitabilities, despite the preparation you take for them, you’re never prepared enough for the death of a loved one. Or a violent bout of diarrhea.
• Being angry on the Fourth of July isn’t cool. Yeah, you’re disappointed in your country, maybe even embarrassed by it. But that’s every day, isn’t it? Use the Fourth to take a day off from your anger and just enjoy watching your neighbors blow their fingers off and set their garage roofs on fire with fireworks. If that doesn’t give you a sense of pride in all things American, then we are truly a dead nation.
