[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: Paying Attention
Gratitude, Paying Attention
Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin
Seth Godin was my first “Yes.” Let me explain. In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry in...
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Paying Attention
In Search of Delight — Delights 1-10
Earlier this month, I started taking a writing class. We are writing weekly exercises inspired by Ross Gay's Book of Delights. Part of our charge is to find, and write about, a delight every day, as Gay had done in writing his book. I hope to share m...
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Paying Attention, Weekly Wide-Awake
Unexpectedly Tender
What you don't know is that life can thrive in wreckage. A few years ago, we lived in Miami. We had moved there from Cincinnati for my husband's job. During the more than six years we lived there, we visited the Florida Keys — a twoish hour driv...
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Paying Attention
Between Errand and Epiphany
"The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany." Rebecca Solnit We live between the errand and the epiphany. Let me explain. We live between have to and get to, work and rest, what is and not yet. Experiencing rea...
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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.
