Year in Review 2020

Things I learned this year

January:

I can get a job teaching kids

February:

How to rock climb

Feldspar is the most common mineral on the Earth’s crust

I like living in mountain towns

March:

I don’t regularly wash my hands for 20 seconds

How to apply for unemployment

Google maps should not be trusted to plan an escape route

April:

Moving back in with my family is not a personal failure

How to dig up and plant a garden by hand

What 6 feet of distance looks like

May:

Getting outside is vital to my mental health

It does not take long for death to become just a number

Online community counts as a community

June:

It takes me the length of one Zoom webinar to sew a mask

The names George Floyd and Breonna Taylor

“Defund the police” is a complicated but achievable policy goal

July:

The names of every single campground, trailhead, boat launch in Sierra National Forest

We can braid my dad’s COVID beard

I like swimming naked

August:

How to be a bride’s maid

Gathering plants makes me happy

It’s really hard to not hug your grandparents

September:

The Pacific Northwest can catch on fire

Distance learning is a terrible way for kids to do school

They were right that fall would be worse

October:

There is a live cam in Alaska where you can watch bears fish

I like watching bears fish

November:

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris can win the general election

With enough blankets, it’s not too cold to meet friends on the front porch

Zoom Thanksgiving is a whole experience

December:

I REALLY like Taylor Swift

The llama who lives down the road has a name and it is Jasper

It is going to be a long road to recovery