[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: Doing Philosophy
Doing Philosophy, Poetry
How Prayer Works
We prayed together as we had done thousands of times,rushing ablutions over the sink, laying our janamazes outtoward the window facing the elm which one summerheld an actual crow’s nest full of baby crows: fuzzy, black-beaked fruit, they were mirac...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Your Elusive Creative Genius
‘Ole!’ to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up!" In a TED talk, Your Elusive Creative Genius, delivered following the global success of her memoir Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert explored the hear...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
The Future of Hope 3
And if there is one thing that I, if I had the chance to do it over again, could’ve done differently, would’ve been to walk into it in a stance of surrender — arms collapsed, no clipboard, no agenda, no cherished outcome — and to have almost ...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Leap into the Fire
Who gets to decide if you are an artist?Elizabeth Gilbert This question hits me right between the eyes. It makes me think about the tension between hobby and profession. I makes me think about who gets to ultimately answer that question. Do we ans...
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Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
