[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
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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Gratitude
Love Opens Up: A Gratitude Conversation with Col. Liesl Carter
KSC: What are some things you are grateful for? LC: It is every little thing, right? I am grateful for my family, grateful for friends, grateful to have a warm home. Those are the typical things you hear. In our family, one of the thin...
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Gratitude
Call Out the Good: A Gratitude Conversation with Seana Murphy
KSC: What are some things for which you are grateful? SM: I am grateful every day that I draw breath in my lungs. You know, because it is a new opportunity, and it may be a missed opportunity depending upon what my mood is, or whatever happens dur...
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Gratitude
My Mother’s Guitar: A Gratitude Conversation With Roxanne Schroeder-Arce
KSC: What role does gratitude play in your day-to-day life? RSA: So much of what I do, I am aware of how I got to be in a position to do it. I am a teacher. I am a professor. I get in my car every day and love what I do. Being a child from a famil...
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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.
