[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: Every Atom Belongs
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Walt Whitman I love to travel. Travel teaches me every atom belongs. What does that mean? It means we are deeply interconnected and interdependent — at a molecular level — and rely on one ...
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Eating Cake While Rome Burns
I keep asking myself, "Am I just eating cake while Rome burns." I am intentionally mixing storylines of powerful people - Nero and Marie Antionette - who public lore explains did nothing in the face of crises. I have power and I keep asking myself, "...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Excellence At This Time
That I could be this excellence at this time/ sudden, changed, peaceful, & woke. May Yang What if we are all excellent? What if we all are gold medalists in our day-to-day? What if we are ferocious dreamers, sublime imaginators, divine conjuro...
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Presence
Your presence is a miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh My Word of the Year for 2024 is presence. I have chosen a Word of the Year for many years. I want to intentionally walk into the new year, thinking about and acting on my Word of the Year. More specifica...
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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.
