[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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Category: Books Falling
Books Falling
All the Way Down
"You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done . . . you are fierce with reality." - Florida Scott Maxwell The essay in Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the ...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Anne Lamott Stitches
I don’t know Who – or what – put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone – or Something – and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful ...
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Books Falling
Blue Nights
“In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.”Joan Didion I am a keeper of things: boxes, bowls, stones, shells, and fabric. I take picture...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: The Wisdom Project
“That memories are recovered — that is, that the suppressed truths do reemerge– is the basis of whatever hope one can have for justice and a modicum of sanity in the ongoing life of communities.” — Susan Sontag...
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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.
