Allowing The Pain In

[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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I am becoming water:

I let everything rinse its grief in me

And reflect as much light as I can.

– Mark Nepo

The Buddhist call to breathe in the suffering of the world and breathe out light seems important right now.

These are dark times in need of great light and transforming love that lives within each of us. We are all called to sit in silence, despair, overwhelm, and indifference and create something else. We must stay connected to life’s ebb and flow and maintain soft hearts even, and perhaps especially, when it hurts.