[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
The Meadow
Bedeviled,human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the wordsthat even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangledamong them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.From Marie Howe's "The Meadow" There are words ...
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Poetry
In Praise of Small Kindnesses
Today’s is a soft meditation in praise of the enormousness of small kindnesses.From "In Praise of Small Kindnesses" by Siri Liv Myhrom In this world that celebrates bigger, faster, smarter, [insert adjective]er, I appreciate singing the praises...
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Poetry
What to Expect
Expect accidents. Expect acne, additives, age, and airbags. Expectalcohol, allergies, and altitude. Expect analgesics. From Katie Manning's "What to Expect" I have been thinking about expectations. Of setting them too high or too low. Of havi...
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Poetry
Letter to My Body
Philosophers shilly-shally, but it’s true: you are me; I am you.This dust, these rays, this strange internal sensethat after all these years, I finally exist — all of thisis only mine through you.From Joy Ladin "Letter to My Body" You are move...
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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.
