[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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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: The Green Traffic Light
“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks ‘Go.'” Christopher Morley I am ready for April. I am ready for Spring in all her glory to say "Go." Go toward breath and light. Go toward acceptance and peace. Go toward open...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Sincerity, Courage, and Earnestness
We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. Sarojini Naidu This Weekly Wide-Awake allows me to celebrate the poetry of women. It is an honoring of our steps, a speaking of our words, a widening of our...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Reverence, Taught
Careful of stuck door, breath-held/ I lift heavy stacks of mother's precious china. From Reverence Taught — Sherry Shenoda This week I am thinking about reverence. In what ways are reverence and holy related? Is it possible to learn reverence? H...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Miracles Surround Us
Miracles surround us at every turn, if we butt sharpen our perception to them. Willa Cather I sharpen my perceptions through writing. I get in touch with joy and awe — equal parts miracles manifest — through writing. I get in touch with grief ...
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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.
