Towanda!
Each year, in early December, I gather with a group of women I consider sisters for an annual retreat. It's work related for my second job (it seems all educators have a second job), but it's also something I look forward to all year long. Yes, we work hard from 9:00AM to 5:00PM, but we also laugh, dance, sing, play, and connect outside of those work hours in a way you can only do with people you truly consider family. One of the activities we complete each year is to individually choose a one word intention for the year ahead and stamp it onto a washer that can be worn throughout the year. I'll not lie, I struggled to land out last year's word. I spent the whole retreat trying out different words, bouncing ideas off of friends, but I kept feeling like no one word truly encapsulated what I wanted from 2023. And then it hit me... a made up word from a movie I'd not seen in years... TOWANDA. If you've not seen 1991's Fried Green Tomatoes , you have no cl
