[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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Week Wide-Awake: On the Winter Solstice, unlocking, letting go, catching breath, and opening doors
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar." — Margaret Atwo...
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The Future of Hope
On Being — Michael Pollan and Katherine May, The Future of Hope 4...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Taking a Joy Excursion
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty I have heard it said that joy is a decision. That makes sense to me in the way we find what we look for. Taking an excursion can mean m...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Joy might help us survive.
My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity. ... Though attending to what we hate is often all the rage (and it happens to be very big business) noticing what we love in co...
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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.
