[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: Health
Health, Paying Attention
This Is Something I Had To Go Through
This Is Something I Had To Go Through, James Davis Eastside Trail Eastside Trail at North Highland Art is a window through which we see our personal experience. The plaque next to this sculpture reads, "This sculpture is about a particular m...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
A Lesson in Figure and Ground
I have always been fascinated by the concept of figure and ground. I have always liked questioning my perceptions and understanding. I always see both the vase and the face. I appreciate how visual artists challenge our perception of t...
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Health, Publication
The Unspeakable Gift
The minister’s sermon was about love. I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scaredand a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Churchhas always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morni...
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Health, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide Awake: Words of the Year
“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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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.
