[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Parker Palmer
Now I become myself./It's taken time, many years and places./I have been dissolved and shaken,/Worn other people's faces . . . May Sarton Read Weekly Wide Awake: Parker Palmer here Subscribe to Weekly-Wide Awake...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Emily Dickinson
Oh Sumptuous moment/ Slower go/ That I may gloat on thee -// ‘Twill never be the same to starve/ Now I abundance see -// Which was to famish, then or now -// The difference of Day/ Ask him unto the Gallows led -// With morning in the sky – E...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Anne Lamott Stitches
I don’t know Who – or what – put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone – or Something – and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: The Wisdom Project
“That memories are recovered — that is, that the suppressed truths do reemerge– is the basis of whatever hope one can have for justice and a modicum of sanity in the ongoing life of communities.” — Susan Sontag...
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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.
