[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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MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 231-235
Revelation. Blueprint. Dance. Angels. Spells. EXERCISE 231: DECIDE WHAT TO REVEAL 21 illustrations The Book of Secrets has 21 illustrations. Write a short caption for each of the illustrations. A green and gold flower wooden jewelry ...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #32
1000 Words of Summer. Andrea Gibson. Our Bodies. Dear Writer Friends, I started a two-week writing challenge, 1000 Words of Summer, this past Saturday. The challenge — started in 2018 by author Jami Attenberg — asks participants t...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #58
Thirst. Offerings. Food and Wine. Porch Swing, Summer in a Glass Porch swing, summer in a glass./ Drinks get named for thirsts we discuss.// Discussions skirt deeper thirsts./Such thirsts burn, turn sand to mirages./ A mirage is a drink the mi...
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Podcasts
Everything Happens: Learning to Hold On, Learning to Let Go with Richard Rohr
Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it?Father Richard Rohr is everyone’s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God.Everything Happens...
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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.
