[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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Anne Lamott’s Mother’s Day Essay
IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN: MOTHER'S DAY I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother’s Day. I didn’t want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
My Partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow
My partner wants me to write them a poem about Sheryl Crow/ but all I want to do is marry them on a beach that refuses to take itself too seriously. Overtime I have learned that a love is most astonishing/ when it persists after learning where we com...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Love as a verb and other earth shattering thoughts about Mother’s Day
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. bell hooks We just celebrated Mother's Day in the United States. Moth...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Straightening My Derby Hat
That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head. Charlie Chaplin I am thinking about landin...
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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.
