[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: The Stranger
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. Armistead Maupin I have always been fascinated by strangers. I am curious by nature. I revel in mystery. I am a seeker of stories. I have always felt...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Friend
Love is a friendship set to musicJoseph Campbell Friendship is a choice. It is a choice to hear love's music. It is a choice to feel loved in the parts of ourselves that know shame and anger and pain. It is a choice to share ourselves with others....
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Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Miracle
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, whit...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: How to Revolution
I come from a long line of revolutionaries.Joy Harjo This week I want to think about revolution. The revolution that is fall. The revolution that is creativity. The revolution that is discovery. The revolution that is our work. The revolution...
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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.
