[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, Doing Philosophy
Experience
Pilgrimage: 1. a journey of a pilgrim especially one to a shrine or a sacred place; 2 : the course of life on earth A few years ago, I bought Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, mainly because I have been trou...
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Music
Turn Around
Where are you going my little one, little oneWhere are you going my baby my ownTurn around and you're twoTurn around and you're fourTurn around and you're a young girlGoing out of the door From Nanci Griffith's "Turn Around" "The days are long, bu...
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Poetry
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows
against each other. We bring the shadow game home and (this is my favorite part) when we stretch our shadows across the bed, we get so tangled my husband grips his own wrist, certain it's my wrist, and kisses it. From Paige Lewis' When I ...
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Paying Attention
Even Now
Even now there are places where a thought might grow. Derek Mahon What does growth look like in Autumn? Growth looks like shedding, clearing, and making room. Growth looks colorful — like living life in full-on brilliance. Growth looks like cele...
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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.
