[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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Paying Attention
When I Am 70
A few years ago I was eating dinner in La Conner, Washington. I sat a few tables over from a couple that looked to be in their 70s. We were situated by beautiful windows so as to see the glow of the moon over the narrow channel of water on which La C...
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Paying Attention
The Gift of Shedding
Definition of DECIDUOUS 1 : falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle <deciduous leaves><deciduous scales> 2 : having deciduous parts <maples, bi...
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Sabbath Time
What is the Sabbath right now? The days run together. Sleep is interrupted by horrible dreams, and rest happens while drinking wine and watching Netflix. I wake up with a list of things to do and never get anything completely done. Simply being fe...
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A News Diet
I am torn between my desire to stay informed and my desire to stay sane. I am torn between between my researcher’s thirst for facts and my human being’s thirst for peace. Like a junkie jones’n for a fix, my news habit is insatiable. I try to ex...
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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.
