We’re not going back to “normal”

Matthew Arnold Stern
4 min readDec 7, 2021
Reflecting on a challenging year.

We thought 2020 was the undisputed Worst Year of Our Lifetime. That title might belong to 2021. As bad as things were last year, we still had hope. We hoped if we had a vaccine, things would go back to normal. We hoped if we had a change in government, things would go back to normal. We hoped if people would learn from the pain we went through last year, things would go back to normal. None of these happened. And when we had a…

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Matthew Arnold Stern

A novelist and award-winning public speaker and technical writer. My novels Amiga and The Remainders are available now.