[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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The Amen Corner: On how we learn we are seen and loved
I delivered a eulogy at my grandmother’s funeral. Standing in front of those gathered to celebrate and remember her, I recollected that she always made my brother and I — her grandchildren — feel like we hung the moon and the stars. She loved u...
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Angier Springs Monumental Work
Angier Springs Monumental Work, Tim Frank The award-winning sculpture Angier Springs never looks the same. People walking. Sun rising. Sun falling. Wind blowing. Seasons changing. A steel forrest within "the city in a forrest." Somehow it shifts a...
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This Is Something I Had To Go Through
This Is Something I Had To Go Through, James Davis Art is a window through which we see our personal experience. The plaque next to this sculpture reads, “This sculpture is about a particular moment in the artist’s life he was afraid. As human...
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“To be grounded in who we are today, we must first remember our roots.”
"To be grounded in who we are today, we must first remember our roots." Lisette Correa, Arrrtaddict I have lived all over the Unites States. Big and small cities. College towns. North, south, east, and west. I have found pockets of cool in each pl...
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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.