[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
Perpetual Spring
Even the prick of the thistle, queen of the weeds, revives your secret beliefin perpetual spring,your faith that for every hurt there is a leaf to cure it.from "Perpetual Spring" by Amy Gerstler I...
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Doing Philosophy
Habit Tracking: Cardiac MRI
Habit tracking right now means simply keeping up. Keeping up training for the half marathon at the end of April. Keeping up doing yoga. Keeping up writing in my journal. Keeping up sending out writing pitches. Keeping up with doctors' appointments. L...
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Doing Philosophy
Writing Lives
How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and his contemporary world. Seamus Heaney I attended the Ellmann Lectures at Emory University this past weekend. Distingui...
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Doing Philosophy
On the Occasion of AmeriCorps at 30
I will get things done for America - to make our people safer, smarter, and healthier.I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.Faced with apathy, I will take action.Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.Faced with advers...
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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.
