[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
Living the Comma #34
Headlights. Joy. Ross Gay. “Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ―E.L. Doctorow Dear Writer Friends, I am struggling. It is summer. I want...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #33
Solitudes. Teachers. Parker Palmer. “Love consists of this: that two [or more] solitudes border, protect and greet each other.” — Rilke Dear Writer Friends, A few weeks ago, theologian and writer Parker Palmer published an essay in h...
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Course Work, Poetry
Summer
Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I knew to be circling inside me.From "Summ...
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Course Work
Living the Comma #32
1000 Words of Summer. Andrea Gibson. Our Bodies. Dear Writer Friends, I started a two-week writing challenge, 1000 Words of Summer, this past Saturday. The challenge — started in 2018 by author Jami Attenberg — asks participants t...
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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.
