[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 – Choose Love
My Choice This week I thought about choices. I went to an open air restaurant in Key Largo last Saturday. I immediately noticed half the staff wearing masks (the guideline for reopening) and half the staff not wearing masks. The crowded restau...
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Weekly Wide-Awake – June 13, 2020
Eating Cake While Rome Burns Books keep falling. I keep asking myself, "Am I just eating cake while Rome burns." I am intentionally mixing storylines of powerful people - Nero and Marie Antionette - who public lore explains did nothing in the face...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: June 6, 2020
I started a thing this week. I am calling it "Books Falling." What that means is that I am focusing my posts on the books that have been on my book shelves for years. I am taking this opportunity, when the world is upside down, to look to the wisdom ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: The Travel Bug
I have been thinking about travel. How blessed I have been to travel throughout my life. What I learn when I travel. The interesting people I meet while traveling. The privilege I enjoy to be able to travel. I took annual summer road trips as a child...
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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.
