[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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Gratitude, Health
Running Wild and Free: A Gratitude Conversation with Lara MacGregor
KSC — How did Hope Scarves come about? LM — I was originally diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 30 years old and 7 months pregnant with my second son, and as all cancer diagnoses go it was an incredibly overwhelming and terrifying time fo...
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Gratitude, Publication
Like Beauty for Ashes: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Felicia Wilson Young
I don’t believe we are put on earth to experience happiness, but I do believe we are put on earth to experience joy. The ability to see, to embrace, both the joy and the sorrow is central to gratitude, to living gratefully. Dr. Felicia Wilson Youn...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: On Winning When We Lose
“Joy is an act of defiance,’ said the Khan. ‘With joy, we win, even if we lose. To have lived well is a victory all its own, for we all die. Death is unimportant to the laughing warrior. A poet makes tragedy glorious. That is why.” ― G...
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Gratitude
Our Nature Revealed: A Gratitude Conversation with Rachel Roberts
KSC: What are some things for which you are grateful? RR: I have a pretty exemplary life. It is really fun to be me, and I am grateful to get to say that for sure. I have obviously worked really hard to get where I am, but now that I get to live i...
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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.
