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  • No Sugar Coating This -I have TDS

    What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

    I have always had it.

    I have TDS

    I have Trump Derangement Syndrome and so does much of America and much of the world.

    That’s not a confession of mental illness: it’s an indictment of a political era defined by cruelty, division, and the deliberate poisoning of democratic life.

    “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is the phrase Donald Trump and his followers love to fling at anyone who dares to object to his behavior.

    But the truth is simpler and far more damning: if millions of Americans and people across the globe are reacting with alarm, anger, and outrage, it’s because Trump has spent years earning that reaction.

    How Much More Can America Take of “Trump Derangement Syndrome?”

  • Cliche

    Cliche

    Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.

    My uncle, who is a notorious non-achiever once wrote on a black board these famous words.

    It should be noted that he was living at his mother‘s house at the age of 45.

    But I digress.

    He wrote the words “ today is the first day of the rest of your life”

    They are all unique and an opportunity.

    Or stay in bed and rejuvenate tomorrow’s the same. Sorry that breaks the mojo of what I was trying to say.

    First Day Back From Overseas

    In a kind of reverse world when returning from an overseas trip it takes some getting used to.

    You run into someone in the street and you want to speak a different language.

    You capitalize all the nouns like it is done in German

    You avoid chance encounters, because you don’t feel like navigating the language.

    And you realize it’s just another first day of the rest of your life.

  • Artist Profile

    Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.

    Written by my wife 

    His friends see Mark seems wired a little differently. It is more likely that noticing unimportant things often missed by others is a relic of a quieter, simpler time.  He has a way with words, which he refuses to be hindered bysub-par typing skills. People have delightful stories to tell if you sit and listen.

    A belief dear to Mark is that there is certain beauty in the world. You simply must look for it.

  • Erster Tag

    Erster Tag

    Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.

    I don’t know why when I was younger or maybe that’s for everybody. It feels awkward to sit by yourself.

    I don’t feel that way anymore, but I did

    The School Cafeteria

    The eighth grade school cafeteria, and I found the first seat that was open. I sit down with five people. I just start eating my lunch. I don’t remember if I introduced myself.

    They started in pretty quickly just being an eighth grade boy jackass. they weren’t all that good at being jackasses.

    For some reason, I completely ignored it. It wasn’t in my personality either, but by the eighth grade, I’d moved enough and knew when to push the envelope.

    I later found out these were the good kids at school. all five of these people sitting at the table that day I eventually became very good friends with.

    First impressions are highly overrated.

    Workplace

    I had a very similar situation when I went to work at Campbell Soup. I sat down randomly and ate lunch with two girls named Dory and Sheila. They were the opposite of the eighth grade jackasses.

    We also became very good friends, it was nice not to sit with my boss because he probably would’ve been that eighth grade jackass.

    Lessons Learned

    I think about when my kids went to school or started a new job and what they endured. They don’t even talk about it. It’s a non-event for them. I may have had something to do with that.