[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: Elizabeth Gilbert and Creativity
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”Elizabeth Gilbert I have chosen to focus on Elizabeth Gilbert and creativity this week for several reasons. Reading Eat, Pray, Love, many years ago, challenged m...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Turner syndrome Awareness
February is Turner syndrome Awareness Month. I have pulled together a few posts I have written over the years about Turner syndrome to mark the occasion. I spent most of my life in silence about my diagnosis. So, talking and writing about it did not ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Toward More Love
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Having a Coke with You
I look/ at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world From Frank O'Hara's "Having a Coke with You" Love is about having a Coke together. Love is about paying attention and being amazed and telling about it. Love is abou...
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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.