[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: Gentle On My Mind
It's not clinging to the rocks and ivyPlanted on their columns now that bind meOr something that somebody saidBecause they thought we fit together walkingIt's just knowing that the world will not be cursingOr forgiving when I walk along some railroad...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Georgia On My Mind
Georgia, GeorgiaThe whole day throughJust an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mindGeorgia, GeorgiaThe whole day throughJust an old sweet songKeeps Georgia on my mindRay Charles singing "Georgia On My Mind.” In the midst of everything that ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Get Out The Map
Get out the mapGet out the map and lay your finger anywhere downWe'll leave the figurin' to those we pass on our way out of townDon't drink the waterThere seems to be somethin' ailin' everyoneI'm gonna clear my head (I'm gonna clear my head)I'm gonna...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: April Come She Will
April, come she willWhen streams are ripe and swelled with rainMay, she will stayResting in my arms againFrom Simon and Garfunkel’s “April Come She Will” April has come. I am thinking of Simon and Garfunkel's "April Come She Will" (The l...
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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.
