[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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Living the Comma #41
The Work of Love. A Writing Group Update. Kaitlin Curtis. “The timeline of your life is not a straight line, after all; it is a series of ebbs and flows, backs and forths, heres and theres. You are nowhere and everywhere all at once, and that m...
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Empathy: A meditation on civilization’s strength
My ministers have been encouraging us to think about empathy lately. At a monthly Bible study. In sermons on Sundays. During casual conversations. I hate to admit this. There might be a significant possible crack in my knowledge and practice of empat...
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WANTED WEEK 6
Exploring the Living Hope I live between acute and chronic. Between part and whole. Between silence and singing. Between science and story. Between worried and blessed. Between mess and miracle. Between secret and publication. Between creating and...
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WANTED WEEK 5
Reasons for Voyaging The sculpture in the front of the Christchurch Art Gallery is called Reasons for Voyaging. I possess a traveler’s heart. I am the stone with no moss. I am the star bouncing across the sky. I am the shipwreck in which co...
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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.
