What a year. What a Dickensian clusterfart of a year, what with the best of times at times both personally and professionally, counterbalanced by the worst of times as our nation continues to careen into chaos despite a pandemic that should unite humanity. But I didn’t need to tell any of you that. You lived through 2021, too.

Here’s what I can tell many of you, though — since many of you only joined me here on Piffany over these past four months, and I am so very grateful to you for joining me here! And if you’ve only just arrived here thanks to this post, then welcome! Cue the obligatory pitch button…