[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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Unfinished night
I love the untidy crowds in the streets, the idea of a night not finished Colm Tóibín A few years ago I was introduced to Katherine Mays, Wintering. In it, she talks about wintering as state of valuable rest. A night not finished feels like it c...
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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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Sentences become presents.
Sentences become presents. Presents passed over back walls, outside the front gates, on the streets. Dorothy Nelson I am thinking about narrative gratitude. I am thinking about the deep gratitude I feel for words and story and connection and belon...
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And so on that day in August
And so on that day in August, in my seventy-eight year, I sat down to begin the memoir which I swore I would never write. Edna O'Brien I wrote a memoir many moons ago. Part exercise in proving I could do it. Part exercise in the practice of writin...
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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.
