[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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Voice, Choice, and Access: The Outcomes of Inclusive Arts Education
Note: This article originally appeared in the Creative Spirit, a newsletter published by VSA arts. Central to VSA arts’ mission is understanding the impact of quality, inclusive, arts-based instruction for students with disabilities. T...
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At The Edge of Center
All tempest has, like a navel, a hole in its middle, through which a gull can fly, in silence. Fourteenth Century Japanese, Anonymous Living at the Edge of Center Living at the edge of center where certainty and absolutes and sure feet laugh. W...
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At Random
At Random is the instant a horse at full speed has all four hooves off the ground. Mark Nepo I have studied the concept of wide-awakeness for many years. It seems related to at random to me. Wide-awakeness is the idea that we can achieve...
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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.