[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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Taking A Walk #27
Taking A Walk with Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic “Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.” — Elizabeth Gilbert I have paid attention to Elizabeth Gilbert for many years. I r...
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Choosing Curiosity Over Fear
I think curiosity is our friend that teaches us how to become ourselves. And it’s a very gentle friend, and a very forgiving friend, and a very constant one.Elizabeth Gilbert For Gilbert, creativity is about choosing curiosity over fear. That ma...
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Your Elusive Creative Genius
‘Ole!’ to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up! — Elizabeth Gilbert In a TED talk, Your Elusive Creative Genius, delivered following the global success of her memoir Eat Pray Love, Eli...
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Books Falling
Write Like A MF
"if your Nerve, deny you-go above your Nerve."Emily Dickinson I am continuing to read tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed. In her letter, Elissa Bassist - a 28 year old writer who battles the demons of...
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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.
