[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 #35
Holiday Letters. Bookshelves. Turkey Soup. Living the Comma #7 I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.” ― Miller Williams Dear Writer Friends, This...
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Spit and Spaghetti #1
Neurodivergence. Rest. Nepotism. Three recent pitches sent into the universe. Misconceptions about genes and gender: Fieldnotes from a “deletion” I am a woman living with Turner syndrome. Though not usually included in discussions of neu...
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Peace
Make me an instrument of peace. Let me find comfort, solace, and light in times of conflict, doubt, and darkness. Make me an instrument of peace. Let me choose forgiveness, humility, and compassion in times of anger, separation, and isolatio...
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The Magic of Peace
As the lungs remember to breathe, even when we sleep, the spirit keeps us alive through the dream of our will. Mark Nepo Understanding the magic of peace The dream of our will is not ambiguous We know the dream of our will. We know it way d...
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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.
