[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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5 Things I Learned Week 5 of the Whole Life Challenge
Week 5 was the toughest week yet on this Challenge - on any of the Challenges I have participated in, really. I have used all my mulligans. I have not recorded my score for two days. I got an email encouraging me to stay in the game. I did not eat an...
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5 Things I Learned Week 4 of The Whole Life Challenge
I chugged along this week in the Challenge. After a somewhat disastrous (points wise) weekend, this week went relatively smoothly. I continued to exercise. Grocery shopped. Ate mostly at home. Drank my water. I have reached a Challenge rhythm, so to ...
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5 Things I Learned From Week 3 of The Whole Life Challenge
Week 3 was the halfway point of this Whole Life Challenge. I have suffered a bit from being halfway in this entire Challenge. Begrudgingly drinking my water. Exercising, with complete intensity, only 4 or 5 days a week while just getting my 10 minute...
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5 Things I Learned Week 2 of the Whole Life Challenge
I went deep water fishing about 5 miles off the coast of Miami, Florida this week. From sun up to sun down, the wind felt like a giant paintbrush splashing pink and blue and salt and fish across the landscape of my life. I want to frame my Whole Life...
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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.
