[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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Books Falling
Acceptance
"Could I accept the idea that good things come out of a catastrophe?"Sue Bender "Acceptance," Chapter 12 in Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Women's Journey Home wrestles with finding good in bad. Out of the ashes a phoenix rises. Every cloud has a...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Emily Dickinson
Oh Sumptuous moment/ Slower go/ That I may gloat on thee -// ‘Twill never be the same to starve/ Now I abundance see -// Which was to famish, then or now -// The difference of Day/ Ask him unto the Gallows led -// With morning in the sky – E...
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Books Falling
Small Miracles
Small changes in behavior, attitudes, and feelings, can, like the little pebbles, add up to another kind of miracle. Small miracles do build up and they can last.Sue Bender The last chapter in Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, ...
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Books Falling
Our Bowls, Ourselves
"Stories move in circles.They don't go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part ...
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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.
