[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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When The Impossible Has a Price
8-Track Knowing The Remembered Object I remember my bright yellow 8-track tape player. It was a favorite things, right up there with my poetry folder and bike and tap shoes. I would “borrow” 8-track tapes — like Joni Mitchell, Blue&n...
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Paying Attention
Taking A Walk #30
It’s the part where surrender is the only path to triumph. — Brené Brown Brené Brown, once again, knocked me on my tail. She published an essay, “Hard Season and Wild Hearts”. I wade through the weight of possibility and fear, ...
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Course Work
Counsel From My Ultimate Teacher
Here is what my ultimate teacher teaches me. Keep a soft heart. In this world that might seem to reward hard edges, fake veneers, and a fast pace, ensure your heart stays soft. A soft heart does not judge—a soft heart giggles. A soft heart is...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #25
Suns. Dinner Parties. New Worlds. MONDAYS ARE FREE 086 — 090 Poetry. Bragging. Spaceships. Suns. EXERCISE 089: SAVE THE SUN haul the sun up The sun might not come up tomorrow! Write an urgent note of at least 100 words to all your f...
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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.
