[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
For Warmth
I hold my face between my hands.No, I am not crying.I hold my face between my handsto keep my loneliness warm —two hands protecting,two hands nourishing,two hands to preventmy soul from leaving mein anger. - Thich Nhat Hanh, "For Warmth" Grace a...
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Poetry
Watering the Stones
Every summer I gather a few stones fromthe beach and keep them in a glass bowl.Now and again I cover them with water,and they drink. There’s no question aboutthis; I put tinfoil over the bowl, tightly,yet the water disappears. This doesn’tmean we...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly-Wide Awake: Actually Very Simple
He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...
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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.
