[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Books Falling

Widening the Circle of Compassion
Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and com...
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What a fig tree taught me about the fragility of life
“Grow back? You don’t know that!” I shot back, and looked to my dad for backup. After all, he was the one who had called these landscapers. “It’ll grow back,” he said quietly.In this country, many of us can take so much for granted in nor...
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On Self-Respect
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which, for better or for worse, constitutes self-respect, is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, parado...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: There is no Frigate like a Book
There is no Frigate like a Book/To take us Lands away/Nor any Coursers like a Page/Of prancing Poetry./This Traverse may the poorest take/Without oppress of Toll;/How frugal is the Chariot/That bears the Human Soul!Emily Dickinson I have returned ...
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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.