Books Falling Archives - Page 24 of 27 - Katie Steedly

[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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Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Sue Bender’s Everyday Sacred

Stories move in circles.They don’t go in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories, and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And...

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Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Glennon Doyle’s Untamed

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they are falling in. - Archbishop Desmond Tutu Read thoughts on Glennon Doyle's Untamed....

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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 Read The Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Anne Lamott's Stitches...

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. Gandhi Chapter 6, "Nonviolence," in Robert Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom reminds me of the rich h...

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