Things I Learned In 2020

• How to cut hair

• How to publish a book

• How to homeschool (kind of, mostly making it up as I go)

• Piano (past beginner)

• The history of locksmithing

• How to make a perfect Marsala demi-glacé

• How to make perfect mall pretzels

• A lot about procedural law

• People are capable of surviving indescribable grief, somehow

• Babysitting is ex pen sive (we saved around 2K)

• There is a Fiona Apple song for each and every pandemic mood

• A crazy new way to cook bacon (via ATK) that calls for essentially boiling it in skillet and then cranking the heat up, which renders the fat before it’s fried

• You absolutely can change people’s minds on social media, even politically. I have changed people’s minds and had mine changed, too.

• Pandemics are great opportunities to catch up on judging people

• Candace Cameron Bure is Kirk Cameron’s sister