The one thing you can say about 2020 is that it’s been an unusual year in almost all ways.

Have you heard this refrain recently? People complaining that no matter what subject they bring up, it gets political? Is that an exaggeration?

My wife and I had to go out the other day to pick up a couple of things. Nothing crazy, mind you, just groceries.

In the long-ago year of 2012, I wrote a column called The Altamont Wave.

When I started writing this column back in January or February, things were, shall we say, a little different.

When you live with three cats with wildly diverse personalities, and then add in four babies of different ages and personalities, you get something akin to a barely contained chemical reaction.

By now, you’re probably aware that later this year, we’ll be having a national election that will decide who occupies the White House, who controls the Senate and House, and who gets to address our

In the last year, we went from having two grandchildren to having five.

Well, by the time this gets into print, it will be really 2020 and folks will be all into their resolutions and big plans for changes, improvements, upgrades, new lives, and maybe some post-holiday

As you might have noticed, the news pretty much sucks these days. Hatred, thievery, corruption, anger, division, and puppy-kicking dominate the airwaves and smartphones of early 2019.