[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: Publication
Doing Philosophy, Gratitude, Publication
What I Learned About Gratitude Teaching Writing in a Federal Prison
“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.” ~ Brother David Steindal-Rast Read the article in the @elephantjournal...
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Doing Philosophy, Publication
A Wisdom Moment of Trust
If you can’t cross over alive, how can you cross over when you’re dead? Kabir We know these moments. Moments when right and wrong appear too small for the discussion and true knowing occurs. Moments when we feel strangely prepared and also rea...
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Health, Publication
The Unspeakable Gift
The minister’s sermon was about love. I hadn’t yet packed my bag for the hospital, and I was scaredand a bit hung over from the mojitos I’d consumed the night before. Churchhas always been a hopeful and welcoming place for me, and that morni...
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Doing Philosophy, Gratitude, Publication, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Gratitude on Fire
“At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer Read my article in Elephant Journal Read...
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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.
