With Valentine’s Day upon us, I thought I’d post something about love. By that, I mean Wordle, the online word game that has taken the planet by storm. Wordle is one of the few good things to emerge from the pandemic, other than embracing our natural hair color, finding more creative ways to celebrate birthdays, and giving educators and health care workers the praise they have deserved all along. According to a New York Times story headlined “Wordle is a Love Story,” Brooklyn-based software engineer Josh Wardle designed the game after he and his wife, Palak Shah, began playing the paper’s spelling bee and crossword puzzles regularly after the pandemic began. Wardle…