[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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root. bud. sky.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in/my heart)i am never without it(anywhere/ i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done/by only me is your doing, my darling)/ i fear/ no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)i want no world (for beautiful you are ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Beautiful Short Loser
Tell me this, why is the past tense always longer? Ocean Vuong The past tense is always longer because are memories are always bigger than real time. The past tense is always longer because our stories are built of drama and details. The past tens...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide Awake: What Kind of Woman
This is not a dress rehearsal before a better kind of life. Pick up your heavy burdens and leave them at the gate. I will hold the door for you.” Kate Baer I tell this story frequently, mostly as a reminder to myself. Many years ago a Bal...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Let’s Fall In Love
These days everything seems so fake,Even the words of love comes with asterisk conditions applyThat the beautiful words-"Let's fall in love..... "Seems less precious these days. Moumita Mitra I want reclaim the preciousness of falling in love. By ...
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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.
