[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 Pedigree of Honey
The Pedigree of Honey/ Does not concern the Bee -/ A Clover, any time, to him,/ Is Aristocracy -Emily Dickinson Finding sweetness in life matters. Like the bee finds clover on the journey to make honey, we must find sweetness. Sweetness is individ...
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Poetry
I stepped from Plank to Plank
I stepped from Plank to Plank/ a slow and cautious way/ The Stars about my Head I felt/ About my Feet the Sea.// I knew not but the next/ Would be my final inch -/ This gave me that precarious Gait/ Some call experience. Emily Dickinson I know abo...
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Poetry
I am alive – I guess
I am alive - I guess -/ The Branches on my Hand/ Are full of Morning Glory -/ And at my finger's end -// The Carmine - tingles warm -/ And if I hold a Glass/ Across my Mouth - it blurs it -/ Physician's - proof of Breath -// I am alive - because/ I a...
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Poetry
Grief is a Mouse
Grief is a Mouse -/ And chooses Wainscot in the Breast/For His Shy House -/ And baffles quest -// Grief is a Thief - quick startled -/ Pricks His Ear - report to hear/ Of that Vast Dark - That swept His Being - back -// Grief is a Juggler - boldest a...
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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.
