David Himmel 7/11/25 David Himmel 7/11/25

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.

David Himmel 7/4/25 David Himmel 7/4/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 29, 2025

The sign of a good relationship is a sore, slightly bruised pubic bone. (Heh, heh… bone…)

David Himmel 6/27/25 David Himmel 6/27/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 22, 2025

I feel bad for the Clown Community. Talk about a marginalized group. When you do an emoji search for “funny,” the clown does not appear in the results.

David Himmel 6/13/25 David Himmel 6/13/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 8, 2025

There is no love stronger than the love a young son has for his father when the boy wants to stay up late.

David Himmel 6/6/25 David Himmel 6/6/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of June 1, 2025

Priorities are terrible at taking turns.

David Himmel 5/30/25 David Himmel 5/30/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 25, 2025

Just because life’s happenings don’t fit into your presumed narrative, doesn’t mean you should villainize people. Life doesn’t care about your narrative. Heed the advice a therapist once told me: “Stop scripting the future. You cannot control everyone or everything, only yourself.”

David Himmel 5/26/25 David Himmel 5/26/25

On Turning 46 | Removing Gravity

Things had been heavy. The weight of failure, the weight of doubt, the weight of responsibility, the weight of disappointment, the weight of guilt, the weight of anger, the weight of annoyance. The weight of the blankets I tried to hide under. So much gravity. But this year has been a year of removing that gravity. I welcome this forty-sixth birthday with open arms and the bearable weight of still being alive and what I’ve managed to learn in the last three hundred and sixty-five days.

David Himmel 5/23/25 David Himmel 5/23/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 18, 2025

When that India-Pakistan war began, Americans were pretty quiet. No flags, no protests like we had with the Ukraine-Russia war. Why? It can’t be for a lack of Americans being affected by it. There are ~680,000 Pakistani-Americans and ~4.8 million Indian-Americans living in the United States. A greater chunk of the population than the ~1 million Ukranian-Americans living here. So, why no fuss? The only explanation is American Racism. Americans don’t like Indians or Pakistanis. Simple as that.

David Himmel 5/16/25 David Himmel 5/16/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 11, 2025

Sacred cows are just meat yet to be slaughtered.

David Himmel 5/9/25 David Himmel 5/9/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 4, 2025

I wonder how long it’ll take this Southside Chicago Catholic pope to sell of the Vatican’s parking meters.

David Himmel 5/7/25 David Himmel 5/7/25

A Non-denominational Jew Weighs in on the Conclave and Catholic Leadership

Fr. Fred came off more as a hippie than a priest. He wore the collar, but other than that, you never would have guessed he was a man of the cloth. He was a small man, cute, even. His office was adorned with macramé plant holders and beanbag chairs and quilts. It felt like a new-age birthing center without the feminists.

David Himmel 5/2/25 David Himmel 5/2/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 27, 2025

Acknowledging when you fuck up is as important as acknowledging when someone else fucks up. Difference is, you should be harder on yourself than you are on them.

David Himmel 4/25/25 David Himmel 4/25/25

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 20, 2025

Between the Blue Origin Failure of Feminism and JD Vance killing Pope Francis, I have not loved the internet this much since 1997 when I learned I could use it to find photos of a topless Cameron Diaz.

David Himmel 4/24/25 David Himmel 4/24/25

A Family Business the Murdochs and the Partridges Could Only Dream of

Since my brothers and I no longer fight on a weekly basis like bony Gallagher Brothers, and we’ve moved past our Mommy and Daddy Issues, I’m at a point where I think the Himmels should once again, come together and strike out on our own. The parts and people are already in place.

We’ll call it Himmel Family Planning. “The family built to help you build your family!” We have an expert to help facilitate and elevate every stage of the family lifecycle.