Columns/Editorials
January 5, 2024

Good to Hear – Finding a word to drive my life in 2024

By Mac Cordell

My wife is a teacher. Each new year when the teachers at her building return from the Christmas holiday, they share a word of the year. Each teacher offers a word they intend to make theirs during the year, which will span the end of the current school year and begin the next year. The word is suppo...

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