[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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This Very Moment Is The Perfect Teacher
We can meet our match with a poodle or a guard dog, but the interesting question is - what happens next? Pema Chodron The third chapter in Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart, "This Very Moment Is The Perfect Teacher," further introduces the idea...
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Poetry
The Most Alive Moment
The most living moment comes whenthose who love each other meet each/other's eyes and in what flowsbetween them then. To see your face/in a crowd of others, or alone on a frightening street, I weep for that./Our tears improve the earth. The time you ...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: This Very Moment Is The Perfect Teacher
“Every response, whether it be an act directed towards the outside world or an act internalized as thought, takes the form of an adaptation or, better, of a re-adaptation.” Jean Piaget, The Psychology of Intelligence I took my written ex...
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Podcasts
Unlocking Us: Bono
I have always secretly wanted to be a rock star. Never played an instrument beyond the french horn in middle school band. Though I performed at a professional dinner theatre when I was young, I haven't sung in public for going on 20 years, the rock s...
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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.
