[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Seeking Awe in Ireland
In June of this year, in the heat of a summer festival in my neighborhood, I said, "I would love to visit Ireland" to a friend/editor of a lifestyle magazine sitting at the same table welcoming people to our church. Florida State would be playing Geo...
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Planting A Seed: A Gratitude Conversation With Justin Lawrence Sullivan
KSC: For what are you most grateful? JLS: You know, I went home most recently, and I had a moment of just being grateful for where I am from. How my surroundings, and those people, my family, and the people who brought me up, my friends, and peopl...
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What A Beautiful World: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Mary Lee Webeck
KSC: What are you grateful for? MLW: It is important to say that I am not a religious person. I am a spiritual person. I think that drives how I think about what I am grateful for. I have always believed in my work with children, that helping chil...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: A Law of History in an Unfinished World
There's an adage a historian once called a law of history, true of every society across the ages. The adage is, only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a dark time, but for the benefit of us all...
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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.