2021 – Change, Hope, Possibility
Well, here we are. We made it to 2021, and at the time of my writing of this blog, I don’t know if it’s better. We are still drowning in a pandemic, unemployment insurance hit a big snag when the CARES Act expired in December of 2020, the President of the United States attempted to stage a coup by inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol, and yes, the entertainment industry is still shut down. It’s been almost a year. My youngest daughter, who is in the first grade now, has yet to have a school year where she did not have distance learning for at least part of the year. This is obviously not what I planned for my family. I didn’t really prepare to be out of work for months and months when I left my full-time residency in 2019, and none of us were prepared for the emotional/mental toll all of this would take. As dark and sometimes hopeless as it seems, there seems to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
