[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: Paying Attention
Gratitude, Paying Attention
Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin
Seth Godin was my first “Yes.” Let me explain. In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry in...
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Gratitude, Paying Attention
Like Beauty for Ashes: A Gratitude Conversation with Dr. Felicia Wilson Young
I first met Felicia in 2003 while living in Washington, DC evaluating programs for an international arts non-profit committed to creating arts opportunities for individuals with disabilities. She was a state leader and I worked in the national office...
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Paying Attention
Taking A Walk #24
Taking a walk with Adrienne Rich Split at the Root I performed Adrienne Rich’s poem, “For the Record” in an Oral Interpretation class in the Theatre Department at Indiana University in 1992. The poem is a statement on the atrocities of WW...
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Paying Attention
Taking A Walk #23
Taking a walk with Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us. Pema Chodron In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron...
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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.
