[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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Paying Attention
I Remember – Thoughts On A Poem By Lydia Cortes At The Start Of School
During this back to school season, I took a look at a favorite book of poetry, Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains The Courage To Teach, edited by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner. "I, Remember" is in that book. "I Remember," a ...
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The Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day
I am thinking about the day after we arrived in Miami almost three years ago. Relocation. Part of being in a new place is not knowing where you are. Another part of being in a new place, is when you are staying in a suburban La Quinta nea...
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The Tipsy Socialite
I sat at the bar and started to check Facebook when a fashionable middle-age man sitting by himself started a conversation with me. A few minutes later, an immediately fashionable middle-age woman, a tipsy socialite, returned from the restroom and j...
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A Rock In My Shoe
Have you ever tried to run with a rock in your shoe? The other day, I started to put my running shoes on and a rock was caught in my sock. I got my shoe all the way on before I realized the rock was there. I gingerly walked around, trying to move the...
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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.
