[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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Not Causing Harm
It's a transformative experience to pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.Pema Chodron Chapter 6, "Not Causing Harm" in Pema Chodron's W...
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Poetry
Forgetfulness
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,it is not poised on the tip of your tongueor even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.From Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness" I struggle to remember a lot of things. The names of state capitals. ...
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Poetry
Marginalia
A few greasy looking smearsand next to them, written in soft pencil-by a beautiful girl, I could tell,whom I would never meet-“Pardon the egg salad stains, but I’m in love.”From Billy Collins' "Marginalia" Marginalia says so much. I know wha...
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Poetry
Dancing Toward Bethlehem
just as the floor of the nineteenth century gave wayand disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust.There will be no time to order another drinkor worry about what was never said,From Billy Collins' "Dancing Toward Bethlehem" Today is a dance toward ...
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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.
