[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: Poetry
Poetry
Porch Swing, Summer in a Glass
Porch swing, summer in a glass./ Drinks get named for thirsts we discuss.// Discussions skirt deeper thirsts./Such thirsts burn, turn sand to mirages./ A mirage is a drink the mind mixes./In a glass marked no it pours out yes.// Yes, the sign says, t...
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Poetry
What We Are All More or Less Lacking
What we are all more or less lacking at this moment is a new definition of holiness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I want to write a new definition of holy. We live differently when we see ourselves, others, and our earth as holy. Where to sta...
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Poetry
The Only Clear Line
The only clear line I draw these days is this: when my religion tries to come between me and my neighbor, I will choose my neighbor ... Jesus never commanded me to love my religion Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Oth...
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Poetry
I like [holiness] much better
I like it much better than "religious" or "spiritual" — to be a seeker after the sacred or the holy, which ends up for me being the really real. – Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, from the On Being conversation, "This Hunger for Holiness" I found th...
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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.
