[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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Paying Attention
Ireland: Day One — Dublin
We arrived in Dublin a little before 6:00 in the morning. We had traveled from Atlanta to Dublin via Philadelphia. Florida State football fans headed to the game packed our flight to Dublin. (I had learned an estimated 25,000 fans would be coming to ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide Awake: Every Atom Belongs
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman I love to travel. Travel teaches me every atom belongs. What does that mean? It means we are deeply interconnected and interdependent — at a molecular level — and rely on one ...
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Poetry
Museé Des Beaux Arts
About suffering they were never wrong,The old Masters: how well they understoodIts human position: how it takes place From W.H. Auden's "Museé Des Beaux Arts" Suffering is a part of life's falling apart and coming together. Simple or complex. Fa...
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Doing Philosophy
Working Together
We shape our selfto fit this world and by the worldare shaped again. From David Whyte's "Working Together" I have an ongoing debate with my husband about whether or not the best music has already been written. He insists there will never be ano...
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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.
