[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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Weekly Wide-Awake #8
Feeding the Good Wolf A grandfather is speaking with his grandson. He tells his grandson, ‘I have these two wolves always fighting within me. There is a good wolf, full of kindness, and generosity, and gratitude, and compassion, and then a bad ...
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Poetry
Bee! I’m expecting you!
Bee! I'm expecting you!/ Was saying Yesterday/ To Somebody you know/ That you were due -// The Frogs got Home last Week -/ Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back -/ The Clover warm and thick -// You'll get my Letter by/ The seventeenth; Reply/...
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Course Work, Poetry
I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life
Love, love, love, says Percy./ And hurry as fast as you can/ along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust./ Then, go to sleep./ Give up your body heat, your beating heart./ Then, trust. Mary Oliver [Advice from Mary Oliver's dog, Percy.] ...
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Poetry
Watering the Stones
Every summer I gather a few stones fromthe beach and keep them in a glass bowl.Now and again I cover them with water,and they drink. There’s no question aboutthis; I put tinfoil over the bowl, tightly,yet the water disappears. This doesn’tmean we...
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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.
