[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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Doing Philosophy
The Bee Comes
The flower doesn’t dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes. - Mark Nepo Perfect Time I am fascinated by nature’s perfect timing. Flowers bloom. Tides roll. Rivers flow. The moon waxes and wanes. The sun shines. It all moves in d...
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Paying Attention, Poetry
Taking A Walk #16
Taking a walk with Ada Limón Instructions on Not Giving Up Patient, plodding, a green skin/ growing over whatever winter did to us, a return/ to the strange idea of continuous living despite/ the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. From Ada ...
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Poetry
Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees
The last ghost leans with her ear against a dead wasp nest./ She closes her eyes and listens// To you, still singing/ Beyond the kingdom of the living. Ansel Elkins, Someone Forgot to Whisper Your Death to the Bees To be described a...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
MONDAYS ARE FREE 071 — 075
Home. Falling. Curating. Ghosts. EXERCISE 071: GIVE ROUNDABOUT DIRECTIONS how to get somewhere Write a poem in which the speaker gives narrative directions to the reader, i.e., how to get somewhere, infused with stories. How to get ther...
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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.
