[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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True Comedy
But life itself, now there's true comedy Eugene McCabe I am thinking about true comedy. True comedy as commentary that offers insight, connection, and understanding. True comedy as the stuff that softens, extends, and expands. True comedy as the s...
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Writing by hand
Writing by hand had failed. Typing festered hope. The typewriter was not a plaything. Christopher Nolan In the deepest, darkest, tucked away, sacred parts of me, writing has never been a plaything. Much like reading has connected me to life itself...
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If poetry
If poetry and the arts do anything, they fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney I embrace my inwardness. The parts of me that are soft and round and full. The parts of me that hold tightly and sweetly and kindly. The parts of me t...
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Of love and care
A shared space, of love and care, above all for the stranger. Michael D. Higgins Why is it particularly important to love and care for the stranger? (Shouldn't we start by loving and caring for friends and family?) Let me start by saying an ethos ...
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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.
