Weekly Wide-Awake Archives - Page 34 of 74 - Katie Steedly

[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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The Empty Glass

Well, it all makes for interesting conjecture./ And it occurs to me that what is crucial is to believe/ in effort, to believe some good will come of simply trying,/ a good completely untainted by the corrupt initiating impulse/ to persuade or se...

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How to be Happy in 101 Days

Adore stone. Learn to maneuver/ against the heat of things. Should you see butterflies gambol in the air, resist the urge to pinch their wings. Tishani Doshi What would my happiness list include? Write. Read. See. Notice. Experience. Thank. Br...

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Chrysalis

Corpses push up through thawing permafrost/ as I scrape salmon skin off a pan at the sink; on the porch, moths in slanting yellow light// undulate in air. Arthur Sze Butterflies fight to break out of a chrysalis. Freedom depends on the strength of...

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I Wish

I wish to see/ your magnificence/ even in the prayers left unanswered. F.S. Yousaf To see magnificence in prayers left unanswered. To feel joy in the midst of sadness. To witness miracles in the everyday. To be heartbroken with grief and still see...

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