[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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Course Work, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Imagination
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” Gloria Steinem The connection between imagination and planning is clear. When we build, tend, cultivate, extend,...
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Books Falling, Course Work
Big Magic
“Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.”Elizabeth Gilbert I have paid attention to Elizabeth Gilbert for many years. I have read her books, followed her on Facebook, and followed h...
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Course Work
Right Hand / Left Hand
Right Hand /Left Hand In the spirit of curiosity, I decided to do a little riff on our homework. (Maybe I am distorting things to the point where it is unrecognizable from an original exercise. It has been useful, so I just want to share.) I wrote...
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Course Work
The Bathtub
I solved my wild new world problem in the bathtub. (Not really, but that was where I slowed down and was not connected to my computer or books or screens of any kind, so that solutions and answers and crazy random dreams that I have carried a long ti...
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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.
