[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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Poetry
So Much Happiness
Since there is no place large enoughto contain so much happiness,you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of youinto everything you touch. You are not responsible.You take no credit, as the night sky takes no creditfor the moon, but continue...
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Course Work
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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Books Falling
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. Gandhi Chapter 6, "Nonviolence," in Robert Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom reminds me of the rich h...
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Gratitude, Publication
Feeding the Good Wolf
A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Ferial Pearson In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry i...
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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.
