[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
Just Plain Kindness: A Gratitude Conversation with Robin Kropf
KSC: You were a founding member of Words of the Spirit [The writing covenant group I participated in at All Souls Unitarian in Washington, DC], right? RK: Covenant groups were started by Rob [Reverend Dr. Robert Hardies, Senior Minister] to create...
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Gratitude
Just Like Me: A Gratitude Conversation With Dr. Robert Roeser
KSC: For what are you grateful? RR: There are an enormous amount of privileges that have been given to me in my life, both materially and spiritually. I guess those are the things I am most grateful for. This life that I have been granted. I am aw...
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Gratitude
We All Breathe the Same Air: A Gratitude Conversation with Janice Nolen
KSC: What are you grateful for? JN: Gratitude has sort of been a driving theme in my life. I've always been incredibly grateful that I had the family that I had. My birth mother died when I was six, and my father abandoned me. I was raised by my h...
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Gratitude
Stories Like Ice Cream: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Debora Wisneski
KSC: You were talking about gratitude and your gratitude practice. DW: Well, I am not sure I practice. It is always a part of my day. I say I don’t do it very well. In a sense, yes- I have kept a gratitude journal before, and then I let that go....
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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.
