[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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Category: Gratitude
Gratitude, Publication
Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin
I think that gratitude is a profound choice. It is not just something that some people do. There is a way to look at life as a “have to” or a “get to” there are all these things in life we could do because we have to do them, or there are thi...
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Gratitude
Building A Better World: A Gratitude Conversation with David Sawyer
May I become at all times, both now and forever, a protector for those without protection, a ship for those with an ocean to cross, a bridge for those with a river to ford, a sanctuary for those in danger, a lamp for those without light, a place of r...
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Gratitude
Planting A Seed: A Gratitude Conversation With Justin Lawrence Sullivan
KSC: For what are you most grateful? JLS: You know, I went home most recently, and I had a moment of just being grateful for where I am from. How my surroundings, and those people, my family, and the people who brought me up, my friends, and peopl...
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Gratitude
What A Beautiful World: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Mary Lee Webeck
KSC: What are you grateful for? MLW: It is important to say that I am not a religious person. I am a spiritual person. I think that drives how I think about what I am grateful for. I have always believed in my work with children, that helping chil...
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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.
