[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
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me
Last night/ the rain/ spoke to me/ slowly, saying,/ what joy/ to come falling/ out of the brisk cloud,/ to be happy again/ in a new way/ on the earth!/ That’s what it said/ as it dropped,/ smelling of iron,/ and vanished/ like a dream of the ocean/...
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Poetry
Small Basket of Happiness
All whom we loved.In the quiet air livedthe happiness they had given.And would still give, if only.You would slow down a minute.You would bend.From Naomi Shihab Nye's "Small Basket of Happiness" An unexpected gift of moving is boxes. Yes, that's r...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Reverence, Taught
Careful of stuck door, breath-held/ I lift heavy stacks of mother's precious china. From Reverence Taught — Sherry Shenoda This week I am thinking about reverence. In what ways are reverence and holy related? Is it possible to learn reverence? H...
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Poetry
Love for a Song
Nature asks only that we notice—a sunrisehere—a sunset there. The surge, that overwhelming inex-plicable thing in a swallow’s joyous flight or the dawning ofnew light that melds heart and head into sensual soul in thatmoment of truly seeing—t...
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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.
