[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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Category: Gratitude
Books Falling, Gratitude
Confession: No Thanks
Gratitude is the memory of the heart. French Proverb I have been looking at gratitude for a few years now. In the Prologue to Diana Butler-Bass' Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks, she frames her gratitude journey. I feel a gratitu...
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Gratitude, Health, Publication, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Turner syndrome Awareness
February is Turner syndrome Awareness Month. I have pulled together a few posts I have written over the years about Turner syndrome to mark the occasion. I spent most of my life in silence about my diagnosis. So, talking and writing about it did not ...
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Books Falling, Gratitude
Me: Emotions – Gifts and Thanks
Everything is gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness.David Steindal-Rast Section I, "Me: Emotions - Gifts and Thanks," in Diana Butler Bass' Grateful: T...
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Books Falling, Gratitude, Weekly Wide-Awake
The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Oliver Sacks’ Gratitude
And now, weak, short of breath, my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts, increasingly, not on the super natural or spiritual but on what is meant by living a good and worthwhile life – achieving a sense of peace within onesel...
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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.
