[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Clarity: Give Love Words
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. bell hooks Chapter One of All About Love: New Visions, Clarity: Give Love Words...
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Great Love and Miracles
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather If we pay attention, it is easy to feel like love is lost. If we pay attention, it is easy to forget that to love one another is the most powerful thing we can do. If we pay attent...
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I have no Life but this
I have no Life but this -/ To lead it here -/ Nor any Death - but lest/ Dispelled from there-// Nor tie to Earths to come-/ Nor Action new -/ Except through this extent-/ The Realm of you-Emily Dickinson This poem reminds me of the concept of dhar...
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Wordlessness
Wild New World I took a writing class with writer, psychologist, and coach Martha Beck, Wild New World. As Beck explains, "All of us have patterns where we're trying to live our best lives and we make the same mistakes over and over. Wild New Worl...
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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.