[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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Music
Turn Around
Where are you going my little one, little oneWhere are you going my baby my ownTurn around and you're twoTurn around and you're fourTurn around and you're a young girlGoing out of the door From Nanci Griffith's "Turn Around" "The days are long, bu...
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We Are the Lonely
We are the lonely all together/ All together we're all aloneFrom John Prine's "We Are the Lonely" I am learning that chaos leads to loneliness. Chaos distracts and upends. Chaos disorients and confuses. Chaos tears and separates. That is exactly ...
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Summer of Soul
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different race...
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A Case of You
Oh, you're in my blood like holy wineYou taste so bitter and so sweetOh, I could drink a case of you, darlingAnd I would still be on my feetOh, I would still be on my feet From Joni Mitchell's A Case of You "A Case of You" is bigger than a love so...
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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.
