Living the Comma #3

[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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The Practice of Writing. Big Magic. Dutch Tulips and Dodo Birds.

Dear Writing Friends,

I have been writing a ton lately. I completed Gratitude Conversations #7 — a collection of conversations about gratitude. I wrote an essay about gratitude for a travel magazine. I took writing classes focused on poetry and micro prose. I am finding heart and passion in words at this time when cruelty and pain surround.

This week I am thinking about creative living and amplified existence in Liz Gilbert’s Big Magic, writing as a practice in Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones, and John Green’s prompt encouraging us to write about what we’ve never seen in The Book of Alchemy.

Paying attention right now is hard. Writing makes me feel less alone. Writing means a bigger ship to sail through rough waters. Writing means showing up and creating the world we want to live in through words.

From the heart of the comma.

Katie