[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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Anne Lamott’s Mother’s Day Essay
IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN: MOTHER'S DAY I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth...
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Poetry
The Aunty Poem (Mi Privilege Es Su Privilege)
I am your aunty for lifeHere are clean sheets,and my spare keyFrom Mohja Kahf's The Aunty Poem (Mi Privilege Es Su Privilege) I come from a long line of amazing Aunties. Aunt Bessie, my father's Great Aunt who lived to the age of 94, taught me to ...
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Gratitude
My Mother’s Guitar: A Gratitude Conversation With Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
Why Gratitude? 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 in a burning world? To train myself...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #55
Ragtime. A Song. John Prine. Living the Comma #27 Ragtime. Transcendence. Presidential Poetry. Beyond that road,/ Beyond this lifetime,/ That car full of hope/ Will always gleam/ With the promise of happiness/ And the freedom we’ll live t...
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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.
