[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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MONDAYS ARE FREE 026 — 030
Spill. Forgive. Love. Praise. Rest. EXERCISE 026: DIVINE Spill the tea Make yourself a cup of tea. Tip the cup so the tea spills (wherever: table, sink, floor, sidewalk). Describe what the tea looks like as it’s spilling. Reveal a secret ...
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Weekly Wide Awake #3
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg April is National Poetry Month. I have made it a practice for a long time to find and write about poetry. From celebrating the craft of Poet Laureates, to mining the riches of n...
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Paying Attention
If poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney I embrace my inwardness. The parts of me that are soft and round and full. The parts of me that hold tightly and sweetly and kindly. The parts of me t...
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Strength, Courage, and Wisdom
An ecstatic delight It’s been inside of me all along, the quiet voice that knows, the abiding hands that hold, the fearless heart that breaks — in the cracks and crevasses of a body seeking to breathe in peace, breathe out love, breathe in pea...
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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.
