[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: A Meditation on Holiday Letters
On why I still write them, how to find words during these times , and their place in the order of things. Growing up, our family received a lot of Holiday letters. We would put them in a wooden reindeer built to display the cards during the Holida...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Peace
Make me an instrument of peace. Let me find comfort, solace, and light in times of conflict, doubt, and darkness. Make me an instrument of peace. Let me choose forgiveness, humility, and compassion in times of anger, separation, and isolatio...
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Poetry
The Feast of St. Francis
The cattle lower their heads as they enter/ the chapel. Even the lowly will be anointed./ Because Francis too had his time in the wilderness, lost in the mountains outside Assisi. He was/ drunk for months. Coming down from the hillside/ he kissed a m...
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Course Work, Poetry
The Function of a Wing
I have read about a girl who pinned her healing to the making Of cranes, and how they navigate by starlight, instinct, the ancient Maps scored inside the lace of their bones. They know how to dance.From Emma Trelles' "The Function of a Wing...
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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.
