[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
From “In the Same Light”
Icy blossoms blow about,/ disparate each to each. Wong May How do ice and blossoms blow about? How do we find meaning in love? How do we have faith in prayer? How do we understand blossoms, love, and prayer knowing life is as big as seasons and ti...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
from “Path of totality”
Behind everyone who walks into a room is a centipede of their pasts. If they walk into a train and ride, so do their pasts. Niina Pollari What if we are all a hundred of feet of pasts and all just wiggling through time and space not wanting to cra...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
from House of Light
There is only one question:/ how to love in this world. Mary Oliver What if we are born knowing how to love in this world? I believe we are born knowing how to love in this world and that somewhere along the way we forget, or become disillusioned,...
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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.
