[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
Sabbath
"And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the super natural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life - achieving a sense of peace within oneself...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 004 – 006
Figures, Memories, and Tapestry EXERCISE 004 — EMBODY THE FIGURE [Choose a picture, embody the pose in the picture, and describe the experience of embodying the pose.] On bedrest, roughly a week after foot surgery, teaching myself to p...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE 001 – 003
This Monday began Mondays Are Free. Mondays are Free is daily writing calisthenics. It’s a gym for my writing muscles. (Find out more about Mondays Are Free here.) I have decided to jump write/right in. I will share my writ...
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Books Falling, Paying Attention
My Periodic Table
"And now, at this juncture, when death is no longer an abstract concept, but a presence - an all-to-close, not-to-be-denied presence, I am again surrounding myself, as I did when I was a boy with metals and minerals, little emblems of eternity." Oliv...
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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.
