[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
Fiftieth Birthday Eve
The figure alone is enough to keep me wide awake, the five with its little station master's belly and cap with the flat visor, followed by the zero, oval of looking glass, porthole on a ghost ship, an opening you stick your arm in...
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Poetry
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows
against each other. We bring the shadow game home and (this is my favorite part) when we stretch our shadows across the bed, we get so tangled my husband grips his own wrist, certain it's my wrist, and kisses it. From Paige Lewis' When I ...
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Poetry
Museé Des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position: how it takes place From W.H. Auden's "Museé Des Beaux Arts" Suffering is a part of life's falling apart and coming together. Simple or complex. Fa...
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Poetry
Traveler There Is No Path
Traveler, there is no road;you make your own path as you walk. From Antonio Machado's, "Traveler There Is No Road" Just keep walking. Just keep walking. Just keep walking. I think about Pema Chodron who writes about life falling apart and back...
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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.
