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.
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Word of the Year 2018: Simplicity

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, and compassion.
These are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
your return to the Source of Being.
-Lao-Tzu
I can make things complicated. I can create knots in my stomach. I can throw wrenches into gears. I can blow things up. I can stumble and fall. I can choose words of the year like deciduous and surrender. In my heart, I yearn for simplicity. I yearn for the clarity of a fish swimming off Key West’s pristine waters. I yearn for the peace of a cat napping with her paws gently placed over her eyes. I yearn for the relief of warm rain. I yearn for the honesty of mile 12 in a half marathon. I yearn for the constancy of old friendships. I yearn for the release of making amends. I yearn for the pulse of life to move through my entire body. These things are simple in the truest sense of simple. They stand in direct opposition to knots, wrenches, explosions, and falls.
About Katie

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.