[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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Taking A Walk #12
Taking a walk with Ross Gay Early this year, I took writing class with Jeannine Ouellette. We wrote a weekly short essay inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delights. We were encouraged to find and write about a delight every day, as Gay had done i...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 051 — 055
Photographs. Wishes. Words. Recollection. EXERCISE 051: WRITING WITH PHOTOGRAPHS make a wish Look at a picture from the news. Describe the picture. Make a wish for anyone or anything in the picture. I have chosen a photograph by Mahmoud...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #8
Feeding the Good Wolf A grandfather is speaking with his grandson. He tells his grandson, ‘I have these two wolves always fighting within me. There is a good wolf, full of kindness, and generosity, and gratitude, and compassion, and then a bad ...
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Taking A Walk #11
Taking a walk with Mary Oliver This structure is similar to the one Mary Oliver uses in her famous poem “The Summer Day,” in which she opens with speculation about the world, the black bear, the grasshopper, and, only after bringing our atten...
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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.
