Publication Archives - Katie Steedly

[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: Publication

Gratitude, Publication

Like Beauty for Ashes: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Felicia Wilson Young

I don’t believe we are put on earth to experience happiness, but I do believe we are put on earth to experience joy. The ability to see, to embrace, both the joy and the sorrow is central to gratitude, to living gratefully. Dr. Felicia Wilson Youn...

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Gratitude, Publication

Feeding the Good Wolf: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Ferial Pearson

Kindness is radical gratitude. Kindness is simple acts. Kindness is wholeness. Kindness is presence. Kindness is connection. Kindness is love…the flower of grateful living blooms from kindness. Read Feeding the Good Wolf Read More About Dr. ...

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Gratitude, Publication

Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin

I think that gratitude is a profound choice. It is not just something that some people do. There is a way to look at life as a “have to” or a “get to” there are all these things in life we could do because we have to do them, or there are thi...

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Doing Philosophy, Publication

A Wisdom Moment of Trust

If you can’t cross over alive, how can you cross over when you’re dead? Kabir We know these moments. Moments when right and wrong appear too small for the discussion and true knowing occurs. Moments when we feel strangely prepared and also rea...

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