[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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Gratitude, Publication
Gratitude and Story: On Telling The Stories We Have Inside
“We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.” - Jerome Bruner I am grateful we are storytelling creatures. I am grateful that story is the language of our heart and mind. I a...
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Birds always seem to be smiling
Something I have noticed is that birds always seem to be smiling. Whether hummingbirds enjoying a flower’s nectar, cardinals preening in the new-fallen snow, pelicans diving for dinner in crystal blue water, or geese flying south for the winter, th...
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Paying Attention, Weekly Wide-Awake
Unexpectedly Tender
What you don't know is that life can thrive in wreckage. A few years ago, we lived in Miami. We had moved there from Cincinnati for my husband's job. During the more than six years we lived there, we visited the Florida Keys — a twoish hour driv...
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Doing Philosophy
After the Winter Rain
After the wintry pain, And the long, long sorrow, Sing, heart!—for thee again Joy comes with the morrow.From "After the Winter Rain" by Ina Donna Coolbrith I am thinking about "Winte...
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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.
