I’ve been very optimistic, over these past 10 months, about how our resilience will carry us through the adversities of the pandemic, the racial justice and equity movement, and our recent election. Now that we’re “through” 2020, many have thought that things will automatically get better. That may not, automatically, be the case. I expect that the economy will zoom back to life, probably in the second and certainly the 3rd quarter as we create a “community immunity” (we’re not cattle,...

We’re entering a new phase of the Pandemic. We’ve mastered the arts of working from home, social distancing with friends, hanging out with our family (all the time) and finding new entertainment in the absence of our usual summer activities. Now, however, the real work begins. Kids are returning to school; work begins to gear up in preparation for 2021 activity such as returning to offices and we’ve got an election in 2 months that is almost guaranteed to disrupt...