[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: What I Learned
I turned 50 on October 1st of 2021. In celebration of that milestone, I wrote 100 thank you notes in 100 days. Notes took the form of actual notes I sent in the mail, email, Facebook direct messages, and tweets. A certain divine randomness determined...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: On Moving
Stasis is a sieve through which I drag myself. Jane Huffman, On Moving A sieve separates solids from liquids. I pour my thoughts and actions, my feelings and fears, my hopes and desires, my past and future, my stories and words, my ebbs and ...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly-Wide Awake: Actually Very Simple
He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Forward Into That Light
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,/ praise song for walking forward in that light. Elizabeth Bishop Election Day is coming up and I need inspiration and peace of mind. (Perhaps we all need inspiration and peace of mind.) My historian friends ...
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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.
