[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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Getting to Cleveland: A Gratitude Conversation with Seth Godin
Seth Godin was my first “Yes.” Let me explain. In 2017, heartbroken and eyeballs deep in despair, I started searching for things for which to be grateful. I asked myself the question asked by poet Katie Farris “Why write love poetry in...
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Finding Delight — Delights 11-20
My search for delight continues. I have already started to notice how I am finding what I seek — my delight muscles are strengthening. I have already begun to understand the communal power of sharing our delights as writers and humans who thirst fo...
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I am on my way to start a new life: On my search for steel and delight
I am on my way to start a new life. It is January of what I have declared "CLEAN SLATE '98!" I am 27. I had quit my dream job — teaching high school Drama — after failing "to work smarter, not harder" and setting the stage on fire during a per...
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Not Broken Simply Unfinished
When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never – ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade. We’ve braved the belly of the beast, we’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace and the norms and notions of what j...
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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.