[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: Course Work
Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 136—140
Bookshelves. Books. Gifts. Presence. Thought. How. EXERCISE 136: WHAT CAN YOU (NOT) DO WITHOUT? as a reminder Write an anaphora poem using the phrase “Without which” The Bookshelf In My Childhood Bedroom Without which, I would ha...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #8
Joy. Oneness. Survival. Dear Writer Friends, This third week of Advent, I am thinking about joy. I watched an Ode to Joy flash mob video as part of a class, Write into Light, led by Martha Beck a few years ago. It was an ...
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Course Work
Ode to Joy
I watched Ode to Joy flash mob video as part of a class led by Martha Beck, Write Into Light. It was an exercise guiding us to practice oneness. Initially, I repeated the mantra We are one, We are one, We are one until I became so swept away that th...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 131—135
Character. Scene. Name. Laughter. EXERCISE 131: BUILDING CHARACTER whatever else helps Make very precise character sketches of five people you love and two strangers. Observe things like how they talk, move, think, eat, interact, confront, ...
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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.
