[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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The Books Falling Club: More Thoughts on Favorite Essays
When the urge arises in the mind/ To feelings of desire or wrathful hate,/ Do not act! Be silent, do not speak!/ And like a log of wood be sure to stay. - Shantideva Read Books Falling Club: More Thoughts On Favorite Essays...
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The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugar
Dear Sugar, I read your column religiously. I’m twenty-two. From what I can tell by your writing, you’re in your early forties. My question is short and sweet: What would you tell your twentysomething self if you cold talk to her now?Love, Seek...
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The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak: Listening For the Voice of Vocation
Seasons is a wise metaphor for the movement of life, I think. It suggests that life is neither a battlefield nor a game of chance but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the ...
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The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Favorite Essays
When my heart broke, the qualities of natural warmth, qualities like kindness and empathy and appreciation, just spontaneously emerged. - Pema Chodron Read The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Favorite Essays...
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Born in 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.
