[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: An Ireland Travelogue
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. — Walt Whitman I love to travel. Travel teaches me every atom be...
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Weekly Wide Awake: Every Atom Belongs
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman I love to travel. Travel teaches me every atom belongs. What does that mean? It means we are deeply interconnected and interdependent — at a molecular level — and rely on one ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Excellence At This Time
That I could be this excellence at this time/ sudden, changed, peaceful, & woke. May Yang What if we are all excellent? What if we all are gold medalists in our day-to-day? What if we are ferocious dreamers, sublime imaginators, divine conjuro...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Intrepid
Intrepid — adjective — extremely brave and showing no fear of dangerous situations: a team of intrepid explorers. Synonyms — brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, valiant. Cambridge Dictionary I watch the Olympics eating peanuts ...
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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.