[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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Ladybugs. Change. Curiosity. Age. Living the Comma #13 Words. Change. MLK. Dear Writer Friends, A friend, and fellow Virginia Highland Church member, recently shared that something she wrote was widely read and halted funding for a harmfu...
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MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 161—165
Cherish. Puzzle. Curiosity. Inquiry. EXERCISE 161: BASK IN THE UNKNOWN overtly cherish Write a poem that overtly cherishes what you do not know and maybe never will. I do not know the substance of faith. Sometimes an iris in wi...
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Wisdom Through Awful Grace
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. —Aeschylus Indianapolis was my first grown-up city. Indianapolis was the fi...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #40
Wintering. Water. Embarrass. Employ. Wintering I have thought about wintering since listening to the On Being conversation with Katherine May, "How Wintering Replenishes the Soul.” Wintering — a verb, in this case, denotes a necessary time...
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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.
