[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: Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
Quiet friend who has come so far,feel how your breathing makes more space around you.Let this darkness be a bell towerand you the bell.From Rainer Maria Rilke's "Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower" We are not alone in our darkness. We all experienc...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Everything Is Waiting For You
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into theconversation. The kettle is singingeven as it pours you a drink, the cooking potshave left their arrogant aloofness andseen the good in you at last. All the birdsand creatures of the world are un...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Nine Verses of the Same Song
The ear finely attuned/ to the extravagant music/ of yellow pears ripening in the scrolled light/ of orchards as if the world/ were perfect/ hears the cicada burst its shellFrom Wendell Berry's "Nine Verses of the Same Song" There is a particular ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: (telling)
origin myth: much before a further future elsewhere,you met in a drawing class From danilo machado’s (telling) Our lives are composed of stories. Our stories are our experience. We are the sum of our experience. Our details. Our yester...
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Born in 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.
