[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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Forming
"Forming—bringing what you imagined into three-dimensional reality." Martha Beck I have been forming my entire life. Forming is a perfect name (thank you Martha Beck) for the process my heart has always seemed to understand. I have always list...
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Course Work, Weekly Wide-Awake
Oneness
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can. Martha Beck I believe in interdependence and ubuntu. I belie...
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Finding Delight — Delights 11-20
My search for delight continues. I have already started to notice how I am finding what I seek — my delight muscles are strengthening. I have already begun to understand the communal power of sharing our delights as writers and humans who thirst fo...
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I am on my way to start a new life: On my search for steel and delight
I am on my way to start a new life. It is January of what I have declared "CLEAN SLATE '98!" I am 27. I had quit my dream job — teaching high school Drama — after failing "to work smarter, not harder" and setting the stage on fire during a per...
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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.
