[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
The Mermaid
A mermaid found a swimming lad, picked him for her own, pressed her body to his body, laughed; and plunging down, forgot in cruel happiness that even lovers drown. - William Butler Yeats Have you ever drowned in love? Heartbreak can feel like drow...
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Doing Philosophy
Straying
So hard to feel the stone and not the ripple.Mark Nepo I traveled around the South Island of New Zealand on the Stray bus. It was big and orange and filled with young people from all over the world "on holiday." The word "stray" was painted bright...
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Doing Philosophy
Making Tea
Given sincerity, there will be enlightenment.The Doctrine of The Mean, 200 B.C.E. I have, more or less, stopped making tea. This passage makes me reflect on why that is. A few years ago, I enjoyed a pot of chamomile tea every evening as my mind wo...
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Doing Philosophy
Friendship
Nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon God than friendship.Simone Weil My family has enjoyed lifetime friendships for generations. I learned about lifetime friendships from a deep and sacred place...
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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.
