[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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Peace is Every Step
When our anger is placed under the lamp of mindfulness, it immediately begins to lose some of its destructive nature. We can say to ourselves, “Breathing in, I know that anger is in me. Breathing out, I know that I am my anger.” If we follow our ...
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The Magic of Peace
As the lungs remember to breathe, even when we sleep, the spirit keeps us alive through the dream of our will. Mark Nepo Understanding the magic of peace The dream of our will is not ambiguous We know the dream of our will. We know it way d...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: 24 Days of #tinypoems
with gratitude to Beth Kempton Plenty We are enough. We have enough. Enough is enough. We build and create. We imagine and burst. We steel and move. We dance and savor. We cherish and live big. We chirp and sing. We ope...
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Gratitude Games
I have been studying gratitude a long time. I have talked with an Air Force Colonel, a Cirque Du Soleil performer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times bestselling author, professors, yogis, community activists, labor organizers, tho...
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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.