[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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Living the Comma #30
Graduation Season. Commencement. Famous Speeches. I’d say, as a goal in life, you could do worse than: Try to be kinder. — George Saunders, Commencement Address, Syracuse University, 2013 Dear Writer Friends, This is gra...
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Living the Comma #29
Silence. Food and Culture. Richard Rohr. The spring has many silences:/ Buds are mysteriously unbound/ With a discreet/ significance,/ And buds say nothing. — From Laura Riding Jackson’s “The Spring Has Many Silences” Dear Writer Frie...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 236-240
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato. Finger Food. Visiting. Turkey Soup. EXERCISE 236: SMACK all the noise Eat a meal making as much noise as you can. Describe yourself eating that meal and all the noise you make. (This is inspired by my wife, who is an...
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Living the Comma #28
Summer Break. Poetry Outdoors. Cheryl Strayed. Dear Writer Friends, Yesterday, we gathered for our last face-to-face Living the Comma Writer’s Group before we take a summer break. It is hard to believe it has been 9 months since our first gat...
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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.
