[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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The Synthesis of Hyacinths and Biscuits
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. Carl Sandburg April is National Poetry Month. I have made it a practice for several years to blog about poetry. From celebrating the craft of Poet Laureates, to mining the riches of new poets’ w...
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Traveler There Is No Road
Traveler, there is no road;you make your own path as you walk. From Antonio Machado’s, “Traveler There Is No Road“ Just keep walking. Just keep walking. Just keep walking. I think about Nemo’s advice to “just keep swimming.” I think...
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Weekly Wide-Awake #1
Spring is here and I am here for it. I am trying something new. I have been writing a Weekly Wide-Awake for many years. On my personal website and several newsletter and social media platforms. In writing classes, “business school,” and with m...
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The Unspeakable Gift
A chaplain asked if she could pray with my mom and me. It was the last morning of my week-long Turner syndrome study at the National Institutes of Health. Her visit was not on my printed schedule, and hard edges and clinical elbows of the entire week...
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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.
