[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
A Field Theory of Beauty
Joy is the best make-up.Anne Lamott I write something about the body on Thursdays in an effort to reflect on - and in some sense celebrate - my marathon training the last few months. It is my attempt to signal (mostly to myself) that though it mig...
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Books Falling
The Overly Sensitive Child
"All that is holding us together is stories and compassion"Barry Lopez "The Overly Sensitive Child," Chapter Two in Anne Lamott's Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair speaks to the parts of me that never really fit in as a child. As L...
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Books Falling, Paying Attention
My Periodic Table
"And now, at this juncture, when death is no longer an abstract concept, but a presence - an all-to-close, not-to-be-denied presence, I am again surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity."Olive...
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Books Falling
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself./It's taken time, many years and places./I have been dissolved and shaken,/Worn other people's faces . . . May Sarton Chapter Two in Parker Palmer's Let You Life Speak: Listening For the Voice of Vocation, "Now I Become Myself...
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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.
