[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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Here Is The Beltline II
After a few weeks of writing about art on the Beltline several things have become clear. My first realization is that art happens all around the Beltline. I thought that before — having spent a year exploring — but now I know it for sure. Beltlin...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Love as verb. Thank you bell hooks.
The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. bell hooks...
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Doing Philosophy
The Art of Reconciliation
The Art of Reconciliation, William Massey Eastside Trail I have long believed in the power of art to heal ourselves and our world. I know for sure the internal and external are inextricably linked. Even without knowing that the piece is the pro...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: March is a Month of Expectation
March is the Month Expectation./ The things we do not know -/ The Persons of prognostication/ Are coming now -/ We try to show becoming firmness – But Pompous Joy/ Betrays us, as his first Betrothal/ Betrays a Boy.Emily Dickinson Weekly Wide-Awa...
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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.
