[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 … Â 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
Reynoldstown Alcove Memory Park
"You may be standing, sitting, strolling or rolling by the alcove on Wylie Street, between Selman and Kenyon Streets, in the space known as Reynoldstown Alcove Memory Park, or RAMP for short, updated in 2020. It features an 1896 railroad map of the r...
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Paying Attention, Poetry
Theories of Time and Space
You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Natasha Trethewey, from "Theories of Time and Space" In her poem, Theories of Time and Space, Natasha Trethewey describes her experience going home to Gulfport, Mississippi. Tretheweyâ€...
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Paying Attention
My Dream In Pen And Ink
Many years ago, I saw a simple pen-and-ink rendering of a house. I immediately felt it was the house that would one day be mine—my family’s home. I immediately felt a connection. I wrote about it, had it framed at my favorite frame shop in my nei...
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Paying Attention
The Falls of the Ohio
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. e.e. cummings Growing up on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, I visited the Falls of the Ohio. The Falls are a 390 million-year-old fossil bed on...
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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.
