[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Learning To Walk In The Dark
I started reading Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk In The Dark in women's group early this year. (We read a chapter and share our thoughts about it monthly.) Prior to reading the text, and talking about it together, I had never given much thou...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: A World of Octobers
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. L.M. Montgomery What’s a world of Octobers? A world of Octobers is a world of surrender, shedding, and letting go. A world of Octobers is colorful, cool, and calm. A world of Octobers is so...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: On Birthdays, Pilgrimages, and Fairy Tales
The final word is love. Dorothy Day Birthdays mean a lot to me. They always have. Birthdays are sacred in the way that birth is sacred. Birthdays are sacred in the way that celebration is sacred. Birthdays are sacred in the way memories are ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: On Anniversaries, Elephant Gods, and Good Stories
Then what in your opinion is a good story? 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous vi...
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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.
