[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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Paying Attention
Taking A Walk #3
I celebrate art and science on my Beltline walk. My walks allow me to get outdoors and breathe in strength and peace. I head out to see the magnificence of spring. Steel and innovation and sunshine. Trees and wind and bicycles. Nature and life and be...
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Spit and Spaghetti #15
Pitches from Wind and Wall Brevity The Delight of Golden Joinery My childhood bedroom walls were adorned with beautiful china plates carefully curated by the women in my family — my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Kittens, butt...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #49
Sangha. Fellowship. Public Art. Living the Comma #21 Sangha. Two-Week Projects. Rest. “The next Buddha will not take the form of an individual, but rather the form of a community practicing understanding, loving-kindness, and mindful livi...
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Course Work
MONDAYS ARE FREE EXERCISES 201-205
Teachers. The United States. Mothers. Fathers. Brothers. EXERCISE 201: WRITE TO SOMEONE WHO TAUGHT YOU acknowledge who they are Write a letter to a teacher or teacher figure. Dear Ms. R., / I hope this note finds you well. I hope you ar...
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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.
