2015- It was a year.
On a personal level, it was a good year. My parents moved back to Cleveland. Katie joined the Angry Ladies of Improv . I've started taking guitar lessons- after 25 years of teaching myself, there's some bad habits I need to unlearn. We celebrated our tenth anniversary with a trip to Toronto and an appearance in a Rush Concert video.
It wasn't all great- I lost one of my oldest friends early in the year. My weight crept up to the point that I'm now on a diet and starting up the YRG program.
On a global level, 2015 just feels like a year where the people who were supposed to act like adults stopped doing so. Both parties seem to embrace people that didn't belong to the parties- Bernie Sanders for the Democrats (because he considered himself a Socialist instead of a Democrat) and Donald Trump for the Republicans (because... I still don't get this one myself).
The first votes in the Primaries begin in February. We'll see if the voters are just blowing off steam or are serious about the candidates.
And the people who were already elected didn't act like adults, either. Terrorism is a growing threat, there is a growing divide between the police and the people they are supposed to elect, the economy looks great in the stock market yet most people think we're still in a recession... and the people in charge are busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The only thing both parties agree on is that they like to spend money that someone else will have to pay back.
Here's hoping 2016 is a better year for everyone.
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