[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: Nine Verses of the Same Song
The ear finely attuned/ to the extravagant music/ of yellow pears ripening in the scrolled light/ of orchards as if the world/ were perfect/ hears the cicada burst its shellFrom Wendell Berry's "Nine Verses of the Same Song" There is a particular ...
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origin myth: much before a further future elsewhere,you met in a drawing class From danilo machado’s (telling) Our lives are composed of stories. Our stories are our experience. We are the sum of our experience. Our details. Our yester...
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The Meadow
Bedeviled,human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the wordsthat even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangledamong them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.From Marie Howe's "The Meadow" There are words ...
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In Praise of Small Kindnesses
Today’s is a soft meditation in praise of the enormousness of small kindnesses.From "In Praise of Small Kindnesses" by Siri Liv Myhrom In this world that celebrates bigger, faster, smarter, [insert adjective]er, I appreciate singing the praises...
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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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