Businesses were opened, babies were born, dreams took shape. But in many ways, it felt like a chapter in our lives had been interrupted as circumstances forced us to refashion our goals and expectations. Perhaps the disappointments of 2020 enhance our collective sense of anticipation as we look forward to 2021. Some of that anticipation is rooted in the hope — with the help of vaccines — that the pandemic's hold on our lives will fade as the year continues. In other ways, our sense of expectation for the new year is hard-wired, a part of human nature. In that spirit, in no particular order, we offer 21 things to look forward to in 2021: