[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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Darling Coffee
The periodic pleasure/ of small happenings/ is upon us From Meena Alexander's "Darling Coffee" Small happenings are rituals. Rituals of the everyday. Rituals of the magical. Rituals of the universal. Rituals of the seasons. Rituals of the tides. R...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Joy might help us survive.
My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. ... Though attending to what we hate is often all the rage (and it happens to be very big business) noticing what we love in co...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Joy Is An Act Of Defiance
“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.” ― ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Very Little Real Pleasure In Joy
The thing no one ever tells you about joy is that it has very little real pleasure in it. — Zadie Smith Joy is complicated. It is easy to miss amid scurrying, forget amid noise, and neglect amid fear. It can be invisible in the heaviness of cru...
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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.
