A Year That Changed Us Forever By Hank Silverberg I went back into the archive of this blog to see what I was writing about a year ago. I expected to find something profound about 2019 or some big prediction for 2020. It wasn't there. I'd like to do a blog on the holidays, good times, family and all the usual stuff for late December, but it won't work this year. (poetryclub.com) Last year at this time my blog was about the meaning of Chanukah, the impact of the Republican tax cut and the large field of candidates for the upcoming presidential election. I had no way of knowing of course, that a virus was brewing in China that would spread around the world in just a few short months and change the way we all functioned, maybe forever. If someone asked me to describe 2020 now, I would use one word: hell. When the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. on December 31st in the United States, it's likely almost half a million people will have died ...