[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: In Praise of Thanks
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.Meister Eckhart I am generally a thankful person. I am not one to wait until I sit around the Thanksgiving table to count my blessings. That being said, I have to ...
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Fall Into the Beltline
I walk on the Beltline 4 or 5 times a week. I have learned a lot about paying attention from the Beltline. Paying attention to the seasons. Paying attention to the people. Paying attention to the city and the forest. Paying attention to the sights, s...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Voting As A Prayer
A vote is a prayer about the kind of world we want to live in. And our prayers are stronger when we pray together.Senator Rafael Warnock Weekly Wide-Awake: Voting As A Prayer Subscribe to Weekly Wide-Awake...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: I, Too.
I, too, sing America.Langston Hughes The election air makes me think of Langston Hughes' poem, I, Too. During election season we all sit at the table and sing and vote. People of all descriptions from across the country sit at the table and sing a...
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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.
