[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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Paying Attention
Forward Warrior
Forward Warrior, Janice Rago I have needed to hear this message lately. I have needed to surround myself in strength and beauty and press on. The world right now feels so hard. It is hard to fix our gaze on anything other than the pain and sufferi...
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Paying Attention
The ConNectar
The ConNectar, Designed by Kaylin Broussard and Chris Bartlett for Trees Atlanta The ConNector is aptly named. It highlights pollination — the life blood/connection of flowers and plants to life itself. I first saw this sculpture on a Thursday e...
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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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Paying Attention
Cusp of Autumn
Late August, cusp of autumn,/ and a ríver splits a forest/ where a man and his grandson/ down a slope to throw stones,/ Watch: their pebbles soar, hopscotch,/ then slip into the water's skin,/ sketching, concentric circles that glint,/ thin edges co...
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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.
