[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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Street Magic. Showing Up. Many Questions. Between Errand and Epiphany On street magic, epiphanies, and resolutions “The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.” —Rebecca Solnit We live between the erran...
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Paying Attention
To Ladybugs in Winter
"A brood of little ladybugs is wintering with me, one has just wandered across the paper—take it for a good omen!" Rainer Maria Rilke I have seen several ladybugs recently. We are in the throes of winter and they don’t usually make themselves ...
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Living the Comma #11
Large Enough Language. Showing Up. Keeping a Notebook. Loving Hard. Dear Writer Friends, Thank you for another wonderful writing session yesterday. We played the game Writing Dice (gifted by Pastor Matt) to create our prompt and discussed an&nb...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 151—155
Annoy. Embarrass. Focus. Survive. EXERCISE 151: REFLECT ON YOUR ANNOYING TRAITS foibly, goofy, endearingly annoying Write a self-portrait that catalogs as many of the foibly, goofy, endearingly annoying things about yourself as you can. For...
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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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