[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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MONDAYS ARE FREE 031 — 035
Hydrangea, Empty Bowls, A Picture Window, A Brick Factory, A Portrait EXERCISE 031: FIND A WINDOW a bird perched there Choose a window in your home or some place that you return to each day. Could be a window in your office, or your classro...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #4
Re-invention. Tenderness. Words. “Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.” ― Naomi Shihab Nye I spend my days between re-invention and poetry. At this time when we think about spring, resurrection, and resis...
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Tenderness is in the hands.
Writing. Kintsugi. My Nana's hands. I wrote with both hands in a writing class a few years ago. We wrote using our right (dominant, for me) and our left (non-dominant) hands. I started the exercise with pen and paper and journal and then moved to ...
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How to Triumph Like a Girl
I like their lady horse swagger,/ after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!/ But mainly, let’s be honest, I like/ that they’re ladies. As if this big/ dangerous animal is also a part of me,/ that somewhere inside the/ delicate/ skin of my body, the...
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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.
