[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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Gratitude
Stories Like Ice Cream: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Debora Wisneski
KSC: You were talking about gratitude and your gratitude practice. DW: Well, I am not sure I practice. It is always a part of my day. I say I don’t do it very well. In a sense, yes- I have kept a gratitude journal before, and then I let that go....
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Gratitude
We Are Not an Island: A Gratitude Conversation with Paula Salerno Herbert
KSC: For what are you grateful? PSH: I am certainly grateful for my lifelong partner, Ken. We met when we were freshman, young fresh out of the can, in college. We became friends for years, 11 years, before we started dating. Then we were engaged ...
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Poetry
The Hill We Climb
“The Hill We Climb” - Amanda Gorman A Poem for Joe Biden's Presidential Inauguration — January 2020 When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never - ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve brav...
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Doing Philosophy
Women Must Lead
I caught an Uber at 7:15 in the morning to go to the house of a dear friend where we were meeting to have breakfast before we headed to the National Mall for the Women's March on Washington. The Uber driver had already taken three carloads of women t...
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Born in 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.
