Living the Comma #5

[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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Blessings. Grace. Courage.

Dear Writing Friends,

It’s Thanksgiving and I am profoundly thankful.

I am thankful for connection and community. I am thankful for health and mornings. I am thankful for healing of all sorts. I am thankful for seasons and perfect timing. I am thankful for my grandmothers turkey soup recipe that I will spend all day making today with my mother. I am thankful for deciduous leaves and soil. I am thankful for breath and returning to it again, again, and again.

This week, I am sharing Kate Bowler’s prompt from the Book of Alchemy, “Anti-blessings”. Ann Lamott’s Thanksgiving essay originally published in Parade magazine, “Counting Our Blessings: Why We Say Grace.” Francine Prose’s take on reading with courage.

Our next face-to-face writing session is December 7th. To virtually connect with the group, let me know in the comments, direct message, or email, and I will send a meeting link.

Happy Thanksgiving from the heart of the comma.

Katie

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