Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 9, 2025
• The best part about Chicago is how unreliable and insane it is. Thirty-eight degrees and gray one day, seventy-two and sunshine the next. Back into the gray low-fifties the day after that. Oh, the joy that tease of spring brings. The city truly comes alive; people are friendlier, traffic doesn’t seem so bad, the urine on the CTA smells fresh. What a wonderfully wretched city.
• A Montessori education is child-led and parents shamed. And judging by the classroom toys and décor, it’s an education opposed to color and joy.
• Being anxious, depressed, autistic, ADHD are not badges of honor. They’re challenges you have to work through. And when you do, that’s when you get your badge of honor. No one completes a mission merely by signing up for the mission. Unless you’re the G.W. Bush Administration.
• Self-control and will-power are needs we should all aspire to have in spades.
• My son turns seven years old on Sunday. Time goes fast for a parent. But I’ll never say, “I can’t believe he’s seven!” because I know how time works—I’m not a mush-brained idiot.
• If you’re pissed at Chuck Schumer for avoiding a government shutdown, you’re as much the problem as anything you have against Trump. Shutting down the government is not an ideal goal for a functioning democracy.
