[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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Poetry
How Near Fairyland
The spring warmth steals into me, drying up all the tears of my soul,And gives me a flight into the vastness,—into a floorless, unroofed reverie-hall.From Yone Noguchi's "How Near To Fairyland" Spring is new life. New to the green of tall old tr...
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Poetry
Grace Among the Ferns
I am light like a canine’s memory; a minute, a world. Where one of the greatest and most daring feats is to enjoy the breeze’s slow boat of fertilizationmade by other dogs of other years—the scent ofliving in and of itself. From ...
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Poetry
from “The Land”
"That was a spring of storms."From Vita Sackville-West's "The Land" My recent years have all been riddled with storms. Storms of all kinds. Perhaps that is the nature of the falling apart and coming together, the chaos and order, the terror and be...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Walking In The Dark
New life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.” ― Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark I am reading Learning to Walk in the D...
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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.
