[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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Category: Books Falling
Books Falling
Opening Our Eyes
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own. - Parker J. Palmer Get A Life I have always loved and hated the phrase, "Get A Life." (It can be said in a celebratory wa...
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Books Falling
Listening to Life
Some time when the river is ice ask me/mistakes I have made. Ask me whether/what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into/my thought, and some have tried to help/or to hurt: ask me what difference/their strongest love or hate h...
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Books Falling
Leading From Within
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters down, if you drop with them farther over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or ma...
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Books Falling
All the Way Down
"You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done . . . you are fierce with reality." - Florida Scott Maxwell The essay in Parker Palmer's Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the ...
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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.
