[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: Music
Music
I Remember
I remember skyIt was blue as inkOr at least I thinkI remember skyI remember snowSoft as feathersSharp as thumb tacksComing down like lint Laura Benanti singing "I Remember" from Stephen Sondheim's Evening Primrose Pay attention. Be astonished. Tel...
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Little Green
Just a little greenLike the color when the spring is bornThere'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrowJust a little greenLike the nights when the Northern lights performThere'll be icicles and birthday clothesAnd sometimes there'll be sorrowFrom J...
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Hammer and Nail
"You gotta tend the earth if you want a rose." From "Hammer and Nail" by the Indigo Girls I am thinking about tending. We tend ourselves, our relationships, our earth, our loves. What is on our minds that keeps us from tending, keeps us from pe...
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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.
