On This Day….

My granddaughter is just starting to learn to print. For my birthday, she decorated an envelope with Disney princess stickers, drew numerous hearts and wrote “Grandma” on it.

The front of the pink card with a crown printed on it read: “On this day a queen was born, and the inside message was: “We call her grandma, and we lover her with all our hearts.” 

Twenty years ago I was honored to be awarded the WTRAA’s (Women of the Towing and Recovery Association of America) 2003 Tow Woman of the Year Award.  Since then, towing colleagues and my family have dubbed me The Tow Queen.

Through the years I’ve been given lots of queen-related gifts. My office is filled with things such as a snow globe with a gold crown inside, and a headband with the word “queen” spelled out in jewels.

I think the professional women in the towing industry have many of the traits of royalty: intelligence, curiosity, bravery, hope, faith, respect, a sense of adventure, tolerance, strength, big dreams — and most of all — they show how to be kind to themselves, others and everything that surrounds them.

I’ve told everyone they can stop with the queen thing, but when I pulled out this year’s birthday card my heart just melted. It felt good to be called grandma queen for a day.

On this day, I proclaim all women in towing to be regal and royal. Straighten up those crowns ladies!