[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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Doing Philosophy
Surfacing Through
This night will pass. Then we have work to do. Everything has to do with loving and not loving. - Rumi Things I Have Learned Surfacing Through Big Mistakes Surfacing through. I want to think about surfacing through in terms of making sense o...
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Books Falling, Weekly Wide-Awake
Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Anne Lamott’s Stitches
In the Japanese tongue of the mind’s eye one two syllable word tells of the fringe of rain clinging to the eaves of the grey-green fronds of wild parsley. Denise Levertov...
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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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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.
