[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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Weekly Wide Awake: Oliver Sacks’ Gratitude
[At eighty] “One has seen triumphs and tragedies, booms and busts, revolutions and wars, great achievements and deep ambiguities. One has seen grand theories rise, only to be toppled by stubborn facts. One is more conscious of transience and, perha...
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Gratitude
Gratitude and Friendship: The Chalice and the Flame
I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal and sacrilegious; where power is no longer equated with the blade, but with the holy chalice: the ancient symbol of the...
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Gratitude, Publication
Why I Write Gratitude Lists
I don’t really remember when I started writing gratitude lists. I think it goes back to 2005 or 2006 when I was working with a career coach and she encouraged me to keep a gratitude list for a month. Maybe it goes back to the women’s group I a...
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Poetry
Songs to Joannes, VII
My pair of feetSmack the flag-stonesThat are something left over from your walkingThe wind stuffs the scum of the white streetInto my lungs and my nostrilsExhilarated birdsProlonging flight into the nightNever reaching — — — — — — — Min...
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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.
