[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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All the Stars
During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sun to see them. Barbara Brown Taylor There is a constancy to light and dark, like sunlight at the depth of an ocean ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: A World of Octobers
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. L.M. Montgomery What’s a world of Octobers? A world of Octobers is a world of surrender, shedding, and letting go. A world of Octobers is colorful, cool, and calm. A world of Octobers is so...
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Poetry
God’s World
As stretcheth me apart,—Lord, I do fearThou'st made the world too beautiful this year;My soul is all but out of me,—let fallNo burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. From "God's World" by Edna St. Vincent Millay The world is truly beautiful....
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Poetry
A Necessary Autumn Inside Each
You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the way/ we have to go, words// are no preparation. There is no getting ready, other than/ grace. My faults// have stayed hidden. One might call that a preparation!/ I have one small drop// of knowing...
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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.
