[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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The Overly Sensitive Child
"All that is holding us together is stories and compassion"Barry Lopez "The Overly Sensitive Child," Chapter Two in Anne Lamott's Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair speaks to the parts of me that never really fit in as a child. As L...
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Poetry
Song for Autumn
Song for AutumnMary Oliver Don’t you imagine the leaves dream nowhow comfortable it will be to touchthe earth instead of thenothingness of the air and the endlessfreshets of wind? And don’t you thinkthe trees, especially those withmossy hollow...
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root. bud. sky.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in/my heart)i am never without it(anywhere/ i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done/by only me is your doing, my darling)/ i fear/ no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are ...
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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.
