[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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Scaffolding
So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to beOld bridges breaking between you and meNever fear. We may let the scaffolds fallConfident that we have built our wall. From Seamus Heaney, "Scaffolding" In school studying to be a teacher, I learned about...
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i stand before you to say that today i walked home& caught the light throughthe fence & it was so goldeni wanted to cryEve L. Ewing, “testify“ Weekly Wide Awake: January Poetry Subscribe to Weekly-Wide Awake...
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Poetry
The Crystal Gazer
I shall gather myself into myself again, I shall take my scattered selves and make them one,Fusing them into a polished crystal ball Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.I shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour inten...
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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.
