[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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Weekly Wide-Awake #54
Celebrating Life. Noticing Our Hands. Rumi. Living the Comma #26 A Celebration of Life. Exploring Calling. More Poetry. Listen, everyone has a chance./ Is it spring, is it morning?/ Are there trees near you,/ and does your own soul need com...
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Poetry
What’s Inside the Ground
Whatever gives pleasure is the fragrance/ of the Friend. Whatever makes us wonder// comes from that light. What's inside the/ ground begins to sprout because you spilled// wine there. What dies in autumn comes up/ in spring because this way of saying...
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Poetry
The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. From Rumi's "The Guest House" I don't remember the first time I heard it, but I learned a question years ago that frames the idea that being human is a guest house. Let me explain. Whe...
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Poetry
Prayers Like Shoes
I wear prayers like shoes. Pull’em on quiet each morning take me through the uncertain day. — Ruth Forman DOWNTOWN I have lived in cities for many years. Several cities. Several climates. Same situation. I have walked down my street befor...
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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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