[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 … Â 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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MONDAYS ARE FREE 081 — 085
Bricks. Gardens. Gratitude. Hurts. Peroneal Tendons. EXERCISE 081: RESTRUCTURE YOUR CITY In the Taiwanese film What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001), the main character is a street vendor of watches. A young woman who is abo...
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Poetry
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesFor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your bodylove what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile t...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #14
The Togetherness of Bees Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness. â...
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Poetry
Fire-Flowers
And only where the forest fires have sped, Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands, A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head, And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed, It hides the scars wit...
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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.
