[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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Grief and Tuner Syndrome: A View from Inside A Pandemic
Everything Feels Different How do you cope with grief during a pandemic? “Normal” coping is a debatable idea to begin with, but it seems to have changed to an unrecognizable list of questions that have no sure answers. Given the current circum...
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Turner Syndrome Awareness Month: My Awareness Success Story
Talking Turner Syndrome I am new to talking about Turner Syndrome. I have been writing about it for a few years, but talking about it is a different thing. Building relationships with strangers connected to Turner Syndrome is something I had never do...
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Transformation
trans·for·ma·tion a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance a metamorphosis during the life cycle of an animal. the induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process. My word of the year usually...
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Surrender
sur·ren·der | \ sə-ˈren-dər \ 1 a: to yield to the power, control, or possession of another upon compulsion or demand surrendered the fort. b: to give up completely or agree to forgo especially in favor of another. 2 a: to...
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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.