[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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Forever – is composed of Nows – (690)
Forever – is composed of Nows –/ ‘Tis not a different time –/ Except for Infiniteness –/ And Latitude of Home – Emily Dickinson, Forever - is composed of Nows - (690) There is responsibility in Now. The immediacy of consequences. The i...
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Noon
The noon, a mystic dog with paws of fire, Runs through the sky in ecstasy of drouth, Licking the earth with tongue of golden flame Set in a burning mouth. Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Noon I measure my days in noons. Let me explain....
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Evening
Another word I love is evening/ for the balance it implies, balancebeing something I struggle with. Jeremy Radin, Evening At this point in my life, I understand the beauty of evening. I frame evening in the wisdom that comes from years, the q...
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The Writer
In her room at the prow of the houseWhere light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden,My daughter is writing a story. Richard Wilbur, "The Writer" We all have the power to write our own stories — to steer our own ships. That I know for ...
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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.
