[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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Course Work
In Celebration of Living Wide-Awakeness
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in August of 2003. It seems like both yesterday and a lifetime ago, simultaneously. That makes sense to me in the way that minutes creep and years fly. My family was there to see me graduate. ...
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Music
Turn Around
Where are you going my little one, little oneWhere are you going my baby my ownTurn around and you're twoTurn around and you're fourTurn around and you're a young girlGoing out of the door From Nanci Griffith's "Turn Around" "The days are long, bu...
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Books Falling
The Future Has An Ancient Heart
The future has an ancient heart. — Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar fell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. I had just moved to a different part of the country. I knew n...
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Poetry
Spring as Forever Gift
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what,not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible. Mary Oliver I love the notion of forever gifts in this first week of spring. L...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
