[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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Weekly Wide-Awake #18
Monsters. Ghosts. Metaphors. Dear Friends, I have been writing MONDAYS ARE FREE for about six months. It has been a source of joy. It has been the best challenge in the way that precision and economy and beauty require reflection, voi...
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Health, Weekly Wide-Awake
How to Miracle
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, whit...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #17
Taking A Joy Excursion The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. Eudora Welty I have heard it said that joy is a decision. That makes sense to me in the way we find what we look for. Tak...
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Poetry, Weekly Wide-Awake
Actually Very Simple
He came back from halfway around the world like that,/ tongue tied around him like a scarf. Everything set before him/ set to bursting. Jay Deshpande, Actually Very Simple I came home from Bali tongue tied and bursting. Told by a healer there I di...
read moreAbout Katie
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.
