[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: Perhaps The World Ends Here
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live. Joy Harjo I paid attention to a social media post from a friend this week. She referenced the Joy Harjo poem, Perhaps the World Ends Here. Harjo places the kitchen table at ...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: The Books Falling Club
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. J.D. Salin...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
The Books Falling Club: More Thoughts on Favorite Essays
When the urge arises in the mind/ To feelings of desire or wrathful hate,/ Do not act! Be silent, do not speak!/ And like a log of wood be sure to stay. - Shantideva Read Books Falling Club: More Thoughts On Favorite Essays...
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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.
