[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: Paying Attention
Paying Attention
Finding Strength to Make Sunshine
I was given my first Ganesha in 1998. I was in a women’s prayer group in Indianapolis. I was moving to Bellingham, Washington, and the group gave me a small bronze Ganesha at the final meeting before I left. The small statue had a card attached tha...
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Paying Attention
Every time you have progress
Every time you have progress, you lose something; every time you take a step back, you gain something Deirdre Madden I think about loss a lot in during Autumn. I feel deciduous. I turn toward color and lightness. I cool down. I hold seasons close ...
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The stories had come like genii
The stories had come like genii, living, wreathing from holes in the wall behind smoky hearths. Ben Kiely Stories are the stuff of genii. Part magic. Part imagination. Part memory. Sensory as much as substance. Wish as much as fact. Woven and livi...
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Wait till she smiles
Any sight lovelier? Wait till she smiles Oliver St. John Gadgetry The world needs more smiles — heart-singing, toe-tingling, storm-cloud parting, kindness-spreading, compassion-building, grace-expanding, anxiety-releasing, peace-causing, cruelty...
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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.
