[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: A New Year
"Ring out the false, ring in the true."Alfred Lord Tennyson This week marked the High Holy Days of Judaism. I am not Jewish, but the High Holy Days have always fascinated me. They are about reflection, atonement, and celebration. They mark where w...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Finding My Why
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg This week we mark the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our world is a more just and comp...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: A Two Rainbow Week
“They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never hea...
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Weekly Wide Awake: Making Hope and History Rhyme
History says / Don’t hope on this side of the grave / But then, once in a lifetime / The longed-for tidal wave / Of justice can rise up / And hope and history rhyme.Seamus Heaney I have really struggled to think of an overarching topic for this ...
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Born in 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.
