Mark your calendars for the 2024 Spirit Fest event. Spirit Fest will be held on April 20 and May 4, with locations to be announced. Our keynote speaker will be Kansas native and author, Kim Vogel Sawyer.
Although Kim dreamed of being a writer from her earliest memories— even recalls telling her kindergarten teacher that people would check out her book in libraries someday! — she chose to become an elementary school teacher.
She used her degree first in an in-home daycare/preschool, then as a home visitor with Head Start, and finally in a fifth-grade classroom. Kim loved the kids, but health challenges made it difficult to keep up the pace of full-time teaching. She made a promise: to never write anything that would embarrass her mother or to write anything she would be embarrassed for her daughters or former students to read.
Make plans to join us! Watch for more information in upcoming KDW NewsBytes.