2020 A Year Of Schlock & Awe

The year 2020 for me is not about what happened, it’s about what did not happen. And there is a lot of what did not happen. Warning: I get a little political at the end of this article.

And let’s not focus on the physical events that happened, because that is just too easy. There is much, much more going on in 2020 than the news that impacted us all. We all know things like there was a pandemic, Trump lost an election, protests caused New Yorker friends of mine to leave the city indefinitely, the stock market crashed and then rebounded. And there were some bright spots like 2 peace treaties in the middle east with Israel.

But what’s more interesting are some of the subtle things that happened to our society which heralded in a new era that may never be the same. We were forced to change our ways and join the future in many ways.

• My kids never went back to physical classes in school.
  They simply sat next to my home office and went online. They survived. They figured it out, for the most part. It was difficult at times and it definitely had it’s up and downs. But the kids really liked being at home for most of the day. The most interesting part of this happened when we needed to leave our home during a termite tenting for 3 days. We found a local hotel room with chairs and a suite and they spent 2 full days at the hotel sitting in their virtual…