[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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Poetry
Winter Solstice Chant
Annie Finch Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing,now you are uncurled and cover our eyeswith the edge of winter skyleaning over us in icy stars.Vines, leaves, roots of darkness, growing,come with your seasons, your fullness, your end....
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On the Winter Solstice, unlocking, letting go, catching breath, and opening doors
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar." — Margaret Atwo...
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Doing Philosophy
The Life-Or-Death Pursuit of Creative Joy
I have been thinking about the number of times I have laughed so hard snot flew from my nose and tears came to my eyes. I have been thinking about the magnetism of joyous people. I have been thinking about the sound of children on a playground. I hav...
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Poetry
Darling Coffee
The periodic pleasure/ of small happenings/ is upon us From Meena Alexander's "Darling Coffee" Small happenings are rituals. Rituals of the everyday. Rituals of the magical. Rituals of the universal. Rituals of the seasons. Rituals of the tides. R...
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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.
