Keesha McMillian: Move Over Terri Keesha McMillian is a spiritual woman who has not only WHO `walked the walk' and 'talked the talk' but has written about it. The name Keesha McMillian to some may not be a household word, yet. However, to the many lives she has entered
through her profession, she is more than that. A woman who wears many hats, "I am a licensed social worker, certified chemical dependency counselor with clinical endorsement,
Ohio certified prevention consultant, I have a masters in education and counseling and am currently employed at the Rapart Center in Cleveland Hts. McMillian also wears the hat of a selfpublishing author of five extraordinary books that should be as common in the home as the `good book', itself. McMillian began her interest in writing, "...because I didn't feel we had adequate material available that really addressed the needs of our children. So, I began to write and incorporate material that requested or required parent/child involve." When asked if her writing is planned or inspiration McMillian revealed, "It's not premeditated, A Drug Prevention And Cultural Awareness Activity Workbook For Children Ages 512. Although my first book came out of a dream. I knew I wanted to write a book, the Lord put it on my heart and the next morning I wrote the book that was it. And there were no real major changes made after that. The other books, I'd say after working with children, give you a sense of what is what s needed. Over and over again you're hearing the same things and you repeat these things and you want it repeated to everybody. You want everybody to know what appears to be a secret. So, the only way to be able to do it is through writing and public speaking and just living and having faith that the Lord will put what's in my heart on paper and make a way for it to happen."
Thus far, McMillian's five very affordable ($10 each) and very well received books are: Who Am I? A Drug Prevention and Cultural Awareness Activity Workbook for Children Ages 512; Who Am I? Book II Challenges; God's Greatest Treasure; The Struggle Continues Living in the Hood - A Drug Prevention & Cultural Awareness Workbook for Youth (715); The struggle continues, Living in the Hood Second Edition: Survival.
"They've been used in schools, churches, the Sickle Cell Anemia Organization, Volunteers of America and out of state, of course." Each copy of McMillian's books should be found in your home and can be found at your local bookstores as well! According to McMillian she'd like to be remembered as "...a person with a purpose who was achieving it and someone who was kind and generous and loved the
Lord." If what William Shakespeare wrote in Julius Caesar is true," the evil that men do lives way after they're gone and the good is often buried with their bones..." then author Keesha McMillian has `rewritten' Shakespeare. Top of Page |
