[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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The dead piled up, thick, fragrant, on the fire escape. My mother ordered me again, and again, to sweep it clean. All that blooms must fall. I learned this not from the Dao, but from high school biology.From “Autumn Leaves” by Marilyn Chin ...
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To see takes time. Georgia O'Keefe I have been blogging since 2007. For most of that time, my posts have appeared daily. The main purpose of my blog has been to practice the wide-awakeness that I have studied for more than 20 years. For me, practi...
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Allowing The Pain In
I am becoming water: I let everything rinse its grief in me And reflect as much light as I can. - Mark Nepo The Buddhist call to breathe in the suffering of the world and breathe out light seems important right now. These are d...
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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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