I’m guessing someone woke up really early one day and said, “I’m going to bake the hell out of this batch of sugar cookies, and they are going to be majestic.”

“However, there is a semi-glowing bright spot in all this. I’ve grown and changed as a writer, and so I have an opportunity to reintroduce myself. It’s been awhile.”

I have a feeling this message will be unpopular, but I need to get it out of my system: please, for the love of God, can we stop sharing “words of the year” every January?