What’s in store in the brave new 2019?

Are the calendar pages just arbitrary ink on paper or an undeniably good way of keeping track of not just time passing but our societal and personal ups and downs?
That’s one question to ponder as we put 2018 in the past on this New Year’s Day.
But it’s not the question — the Question of the Week, that is. The first QOTW of the new year.
That question for you, our readers, here on Jan. 1, goes to your expectations — along with your hopes and fears — for the ne