[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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Books Falling
Beginning
I don't know Who - or what - put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone - or Something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, ther...
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Books Falling
A Field Theory of Beauty
Joy is the best make-up.Anne Lamott I write something about the body on Thursdays in an effort to reflect on - and in some sense celebrate - my marathon training the last few months. It is my attempt to signal (mostly to myself) that though it mig...
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Books Falling
The Overly Sensitive Child
"All that is holding us together is stories and compassion"Barry Lopez "The Overly Sensitive Child," Chapter Two in Anne Lamott's Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair speaks to the parts of me that never really fit in as a child. As L...
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Books Falling
Forward
In the Japanese tongue of the mind's eye one two syllable word tells of the fine of rain clinging to the eaves of and of the grey-green fronds of wild parsley." - Denise Levertov "Forward," the final essay in Anne Lamott's Stitches: A Handbook on...
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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.
