Just Say “No,” 2017

It’s 2017 and the “One Word” folks have come out in full force. I saw them on Facebook and Twitter, slinging words likeresistance, ordiscipline,or spontaneity (an ironically planned and unspontaneous use of the word). The words read like truncated manifestos leaving so many read-between-the-line impressions. And as if this were not enough for the One-Worders, nearly every one of them badgered the rest of us to participate, asking, “What’s your One Word?”

No.

As in, “No; Iwon’t have the course...