[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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It Is Enough
If you can't see what you are looking for, see what is there. - Mark Nepo When is something enough? Something is enough when I am present. Something is enough when I am filled with excitement and energy and passion. Something is enough when I cre...
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Birds and Ornithologists
Birds don’t need ornithologists to fly. – Mark Nepo What does it mean to be awake? As someone who has studied wide-awakeness for many years. As someone who has taken copious fieldnotes and conducted interviews. As someone who has written extens...
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Outwaiting Clouds
The bud in half-bloom out waits the cloud. – Mark Nepo I have wanted to write about clouds for several years. I have thought about writing thank you posts to clouds after sweltering runs. I have thought about posts that tell the stories I have wri...
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The Next Step to Health
The deeper the cry, the more clear the choice. - Mark Nepo Making Difficult Decisions I either jump in before looking - or - think and think and think so much that I feel paralyzed. I fear middle ground because compromise can feel like loss. I reli...
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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.