[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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Health
What I Learn From My Thousand Mile Failures
I set the goal of running 1,000 miles for several years. I joined a club on Facebook committed to running 1,000 miles. I put a training plan in place to achieve that goal each time. I have fallen far short each time. Right now, at the begiining of a ...
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Health, Weekly Wide-Awake
Next Year’s Word: Miracle
“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets I have chosen words of the year for more than ten years. Each year, I look within and think ab...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Peace
Make me an instrument of peace. Let me find comfort, solace, and light in times of conflict, doubt, and darkness. Make me an instrument of peace. Let me choose forgiveness, humility, and compassion in times of anger, separation, and isolatio...
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Gratitude, Health
Running Wild and Free: A Gratitude Conversation with Lara MacGregor
KSC — How did Hope Scarves come about? LM — I was originally diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 30 years old and 7 months pregnant with my second son, and as all cancer diagnoses go it was an incredibly overwhelming and terrifying time fo...
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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.
