[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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Category: Course Work
Course Work
Right Hand / Left Hand
Right Hand /Left Hand In the spirit of curiosity, I decided to do a little riff on our homework. (Maybe I am distorting things to the point where it is unrecognizable from an original exercise. It has been useful, so I just want to share.) I wrote...
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Course Work
The Bathtub
I solved my wild new world problem in the bathtub. (Not really, but that was where I slowed down and was not connected to my computer or books or screens of any kind, so that solutions and answers and crazy random dreams that I have carried a long ti...
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Course Work
10 Ways to Improve the Space
Part of creating a wild new world is being able to imagine. This is a exercise of imagination in which I envision a new guest room. I love when people visit our home. We have a guest room that I want to improve to allow for the kind of guest expe...
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Course Work
The Old Guitarist
I visited the Art Institute of Chicago a few years ago. I was not aware, until I was there, that it housed Picasso’s The Old Guitarist. Maxine Greene had passed away that week and I had been struggling to find words. She has been a philosophical co...
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Born in 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.
