[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: Reteach A Thing Its Loveliness
The bud/ stands for all things,/ even for those things that don’t flower/ for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;/ though sometimes it is necessary/ to reteach a thing its loveliness,/ to put a hand on its brow/ of the flower/ and re...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: All rivers at once
All rivers at onceWhat is the body? Endurance.What is love? Gratitude.What is hidden in our chests? Laughter.What else? Compassion.Rumi All rivers at once. That thought comforts me. Thinking about the power of nature, of rivers like the Ohio on wh...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Song For Autumn
"Don’t you imagine the leaves dream nowhow comfortable it will be to touchthe earth instead of thenothingness of the air and the endlessfreshets of wind?"Mary Oliver As the dew point drops on my morning runs, I am reminded of the seasons changin...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: The Angels and the Furies
The angels, the furies/ Are never far away/ While we dance, we dance,/ Trying to keep a balance/ To be perfectly human/ (Not perfect, never perfect,/ Never an end to growth and peril),/ Able to bless and forgive/ Ourselves./ This is what is asked of ...
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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.
