[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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Loud and Clear: My Hormone Replacement Therapy Journey
Hormones are your body's chemical messengers. The travel in your bloodstream to tissues or organs to help them do their work. They work slowly, over time, and affect many different processes, including: growth and development, metabolism - how your b...
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30 For Thursday: A Body Lead
Note: Learning how to move and be comfortable in our bodies is central to high school Theatre classes. I researched high school Theatre classrooms as part of my dissertation focused on wide-awakeness. Wide-awakeness lives in the body and mind. ...
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30 For Thursday: The Bridge
I ran 6 miles Sunday morning. My route took me over the Rickenbacker Causeway - a bridge so formidable local runners call it "Goliath." I had not run the bridge for months. My "long runs" have stopped at the base of the bridge, about 4.5 miles fro...
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30 For Thursday: Running For Hope Scarves
I had planned on running for Hope Scarves for the third year in a row at the Kentucky Derby mini-Marathon this April, but like so many things the race was canceled. Unlike the mini, hope was not cancelled. As I train for the marathon I will run in Ja...
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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.