[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 #29
Poetry. Fiction. Repair. Interdependence. The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape. My mother ordered me again, and again, to sweep it clean. All that blooms must fall. I learned this not from the Dao, but from high school bio...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #28
Elements. Songs. Surrender. Dear Friends, Writing Weekly Wide-Awake is thinking out loud. As an exercise in examination, reflection, and (hopefully) growth, writing it is my attempt to join with others and model curiosity, generosity, ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #27
Poetry. Hidden Doors. Gratitude. Dear Friends, I am thinking about truth and miracles. I am thinking about poetry and gratitude conversations. I am thinking about justice and peace. I continue working through the Miracle Project and MONDAYS ARE...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #26
Memory. Kindness. Gratitude. Jane Goodall. MONDAYS ARE FREE 091 — 095 EXERCISE 092: WRITE TO SOMEONE YOU MISS or some place Write a letter to someone or some place you left a long time ago. I recently visited Austin, Texas. I had n...
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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.
