Reality check
The remnants of tropical storm Zeta are swirling around us, the thirty-first named storm of the 2020 season. It canceled our schools for the day and left behind a winter storm in Amarillo, Texas. Halloween is on Saturday, but of course there will be no traditional events even though this is the one time of year people actually get excited about wearing masks. Even Apple has stolen our precious Charlie Brown and Linus' great pumpkin, the first time in history it will not be offered on regular TV. Also this weekend? A full moon and daylight savings time. Let's see. Hmm. The last time there was a full moon and daylight savings time on the same day, the pandemic began in the US. Jokes abound on social media, one of my favorites being that maybe this will force a hard reset. I'm afraid it won't. Because we are but a few days from Election Day, an election that has severed political parties from each other and nearly ruined the nation. As a family, we are digging in our h...