Spit and Spaghetti #6

[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!

Melanie Faith

Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.

Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.

The Society of Professional Journalists

In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.

I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.

Maxine Greene

Philosopher and Education Scholar

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I’m On My Way to Start a New Life: My Search for Steel and Delight

This story is about what it means to start a new life. Seek a geographic fix. Burn it all down. Mend a broken heart. Consider the way our past leaps impact our current lives.

This story has only been told on my newsletter — the Wide-Awakeness Project — as a writing exercise in Jeannine Ouellette’s Writing in the Dark community. The proposed story will extend the earlier exercise and explore current implications of past decisions.

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John Ossoff

Please accept this application for a Content and Creator position. …

When you look at the data, our country is not divided on these issues. Despite these facts —which have become even more evident in recent elections indicating their popularity across the geographical and ideological landscape — political leadership remains largely silent. It is not enough to accept what is happening because, “we are out of power”. We will remain out of power if we don’t offer an aggressive alternative. That is where your team fits in — offering an alternative to silent leadership.

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Convict Leasing Today: On History Repeating Itself

I propose a 2,000-word article that will analyze the current prison labor struggle with an interest in offering a path forward based on past legal, political, and social progress. I will interview individuals involved in the current prison labor conversation — including policy makers and activists, historians familiar with the convict leasing system, and legal scholars who can help me understand how we got where we are today and where we go from here.

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