[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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MONDAYS ARE FREE 046 — 050
Dreams. Possibility. Leaps. Research. Bewilderment. EXERCISE 046: DREAMWORK between sleep & wakefulness Transcribe a dream exactly. Don’t comment, don’t let us know if you don’t remember this part of that part. Just transcribe wha...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #7
You are enough. The Mother’s Day message at church was “You are enough.” (Thank you Rev. Candace Rowell.) I let that dance in my mind. I let that wash over me. I let it settle into my bones. I often move between feeling less than or too much...
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Taking A Walk #10
Taking a walk on Mother's Day I am grateful for mothering love that knows cherishing, comforting, holding space, healing, and believing in. The love that has taught me I am whole and more than enough. The love that has taught me joy in another's s...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #6
Out of the Gate Many years ago, my life coach had encouraged me to celebrate the completion of my memoir, The Stage Is On Fire. I had been working on the manuscript for well over three years in supportive writing classes, with patient editors...
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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.
