[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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Love for a Song
Nature asks only that we notice—a sunrisehere—a sunset there. The surge, that overwhelming inex-plicable thing in a swallow’s joyous flight or the dawning ofnew light that melds heart and head into sensual soul in thatmoment of truly seeing—t...
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I look/ at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world From Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You" Love is about having a Coke together. Love is about paying attention and being amazed and telling about it. Love is abou...
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Love Will Come To You
I say love will come to you/ Hoping just because I spoke the words they're true/ As if I offered up a crystal ball to look through/ Where there's now one there will be twoFrom Indigo Girls, "Love Will Come to You." Love will come to you. Love will...
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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.
