[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
How It All Started: The Power of “Yes”
"After the final no there comes a yes. And on that yes the future world depends." Wallace Stevens The fire to write about gratitude began to burn my soul in the middle of the night in July of 2017. The memory is as clear as the water off of...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Vacation
I was on vacation this week, so I had lot of time to think. The fact we went on vacation - we drove 3 and a half hours to Key West - during this time gave me pause. What does it mean when even a vacation feels controversial in my soul? We wear masks....
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Health
30 For Thursday: A Body Lead
Note: Learning how to move and be comfortable in our bodies is central to high school Theatre classes. I researched high school Theatre classrooms as part of my dissertation focused on wide-awakeness. Wide-awakeness lives in the body and mind. ...
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Books Falling
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. Gandhi Chapter 6, "Nonviolence," in Robert Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom reminds me of the rich h...
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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.
