[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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Service
"The Light is available yesterday, today, and to eternity. What is thee doing about it?"Lucretia Mott Chapter 7 in Robert Lawrence Smith's Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense, "Service" breaks down the Qua...
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Loud and Clear: My Hormone Replacement Therapy Journey
Hormones are your body's chemical messengers. The travel in your bloodstream to tissues or organs to help them do their work. They work slowly, over time, and affect many different processes, including: growth and development, metabolism - how your b...
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Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.Pema Chodron Read Thoughts On Pema Chodron's When Things Fall Apart...
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Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Sue Bender’s Everyday Sacred
Stories move in circles.They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And...
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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.