[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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Poetry
Walkingstick Dragon
I want to dance here in this music,/ not in spirit where there is no time.// I circle the sun like shadow. My/ head becomes my feet. Covered with// existence, Pharaoh; annihilated, I/ am Moses. A pen between God-fingers,// a walkingstick dragon, my b...
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Paying Attention
Dinner With Strangers
I have always shared dinner with strangers. My habit of eating with strangers probably started in the elementary school cafeteria and has continued in many schools, coffee shops, restaurants, bars, airports, and festivals around the world throughout ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Friend
Love is a friendship set to musicJoseph Campbell Friendship is a choice. It is a choice to hear love's music. It is a choice to feel loved in the parts of ourselves that know shame and anger and pain. It is a choice to share ourselves with others....
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Doing Philosophy
Making Tea
Given sincerity, there will be enlightenment.The Doctrine of The Mean, 200 B.C.E. I have, more or less, stopped making tea. This passage makes me reflect on why that is. A few years ago, I enjoyed a pot of chamomile tea every evening as my mind wo...
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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.
