[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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Desperate for Magic, Ready for Love
“For now just remember how you felt the day you were born: desperate for magic, ready to love.” Kate Baer, from What Kind of Woman I am still desperate for magic and ready for love. I am comforted knowing this has been the primordial cas...
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Paying Attention
Of love and care
A shared space, of love and care, above all for the stranger. Michael D. Higgins Why is it particularly important to love and care for the stranger? (Shouldn't we start by loving and caring for friends and family?) Let me start by saying an ethos ...
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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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Gospel Music Makes Me Weep: On singing into the I am and the not yet
“Spirit of Life, come unto me./ Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion./ Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;/ Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice./ Roots hold me close; wings set me free;/ Spirit of Life, come to me, come to...
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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.
