[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 – Choose Love
My Choice This week I thought about choices. I went to an open air restaurant in Key Largo last Saturday. I immediately noticed half the staff wearing masks (the guideline for reopening) and half the staff not wearing masks. The crowded restau...
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Books Falling
Waking
"Daily there is beauty. The wildflowers still exist, even nameless. They know their own names and those are beyond human knowing. Ask me the name of the month and I could say October when it is June, but there is bread and butter. Pleasure. I listen ...
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30 for Thursday: Where I Am Heading
January 10th, 2021 I will turn 50 in October of 2021. (Those who know me know "0 Birthdays" are a big deal.) I am claiming the entire year as a celebration. To kick off the year of living joyously, I have registered to run the Walt Disney World Ma...
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Books Falling
Why Do I Fast?
I anoit my flesh/Thought is hallowed in the lean/Oil of solitude/I call you forth, all, upon/Terraces of light. Let the dark/WithdrawI anoint my voice/And let it sound hereafter/Or dissolve upon its lonely passage/In your void. Voices new./Shall rous...
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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.
