[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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Doing Philosophy
Even in the Dark
To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken. - Mark Nepo We are not yet. Light when darkness comes. Hope when we are desperate. Faith when we are afraid. Wholeness when we are broken. This makes me think of the idea that we are not yet. It ...
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Doing Philosophy
Talking Fast
Live loud enough in your heart and there is no need to speak. - Mark Nepo Living Out Loud Living out loud is about building, not tearing down. Living out loud is about abundance, not scarcity. Living out loud is big, not small. Living out loud is ab...
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Doing Philosophy
A Great Battle Raging
There is a great battle raging: for my mouth not to harden and my jaws not to become like heavy doors of an iron safe, so my life may not be called pre-death.” - Yehudi Amichai I am sensitive. I cry when I am moved, which is often. I am a self-di...
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Health
On Drinking More Water
Over the years, I have committed to weight losing, yoga practicing, marathon training, good deed doing, daily meditating, and letter writing (just to name a few of my past resolutions). In general, I am strong, committed, focused, and determined. Des...
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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.
