A journal is a journey, in this case, a journey through a tumultuous year recorded day by day in words and pictures. This journey begins in the Summer of 2020 as a deadly pandemic kills millions of people around the world, fires, hurricanes, and other environmental disasters claim thousands more lives, and one of the most portentous Presidential election campaigns in American history builds to a climax. Dave Donelson records not the events themselves, but the lives we lived despite them.