[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, Doing Philosophy
Experience
Pilgrimage: 1. a journey of a pilgrim especially one to a shrine or a sacred place; 2 : the course of life on earth A few years ago, I bought Paul Elie's The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, mainly because I have been trou...
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Books Falling
The Future Has An Ancient Heart
The future has an ancient heart. Carlo Levi Cheryl Strayed’s tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugarfell into my hands at a bookstore years ago. I had just moved to a different part of the country. I knew no one. I had l...
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Books Falling
Eight Worldly Dharmas
We might feel that somehow we should try to eradicate these feelings of pleasure and pain, loss, and gain, praise and blame, fame and disgrace. A more practical approach would be to get to know them, see how they hook us, see how they color our perce...
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Books Falling
This Very Moment Is The Perfect Teacher
We can meet our match with a poodle or a guard dog, but the interesting question is - what happens next? Pema Chodron The third chapter in Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart, "This Very Moment Is The Perfect Teacher," further introduces the idea...
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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.
