I'm finding this thread very helpful!
Unhappy to lose some of the deductions I've had up to now, and the lower tax rates don't offset the lost deductions and the loss of the personal exemption. I also realized that there's no advantage for me to "bunch" my exemptions into a single year. The ones I can't time easily (state taxes, property taxes and mortgage interest) alone add up to more than $12,000. (I'm filing as Single.) It's also a crapshoot figuring which year is a better year to have deductions since my taxes are driven so much by investment results.
Bottom line: looks like my Federal Taxes for 2018 would be $2,500 more than 2017 if I had the same investment results. Tolerable, but a surprise given all the clamor about how millionaires are getting big tax cuts.
My state, if it doesn't change its formulas, will get a few bucks extra due to the lost Federal deductions. I'm guessing they'll take the money and run.