[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 171 — 175
Empathy. Quilt. Prom. Kaleidoscope. EXERCISE 171: AGREE TO DISAGREE as many as you At the top of an empty page, write down word for word a phrase, saying, or quote by someone you disagree with. Write down all the physical objects it makes y...
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A certain slant of Light
Winter Afternoons – / That oppresses, like the Heft/ Of Cathedral Tunes – / Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – / We can find no scar,/ But internal difference – / Where the Meanings, are – None may teach it – An...
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Living the Comma #15
Thursday Writer's Hour. Teddy Bears. The Moth. Roxanne Gay. “I often say that reading and writing saved my life. I mean that quite literally.” — Roxane Gay Dear Writer Friends, As we head toward the end of our first year of meeting i...
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Memory as Fuel
“You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel...
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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.
