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Opinion: What’s in a word? Here are some to leave behind in 2021

Jay Greeson cropped
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In this time of uncertainty – when inconsistency is the only consistency – I always enjoy the year-end lists that come with the flipping of the calendar.

The baby names or the best new tech. The songs of the year or the tributes to those we lost.

With those “best-of” and “worst-of” lists come forward-viewing New Year’s resolutions and promises for better.

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I’m here for those, especially when we all need a reason to believe that 2022 will be better.