[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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Worship
Ernest Hemingway wrote, "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast." I feel the same way about Meeting; it is a movable feast of the s...
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Gratitude Conversations Volume II – Gratitude and Service
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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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Books Falling
Growing Trust
The mid-June chapter in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle focuses on the context - and importance - of organic, community-grown gardens. She situates this conversation in mid-June, because that is when she takes a quick breather from te...
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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.
