[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, Podcasts
On Being Listening Party — Celebrating 20 Years
I have listened to On Being for years. It was the first podcast I followed before I knew what podcasts were. It has been church and rock. It has been friend and secret knower. It has been muse and artist. It has been communion with the what if and no...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Living the Questions
If you are faithful to living a question, that question will be faithful back to you. Krista Tippett The older I get the more curious I become. Curiosity, I have learned, is important to live the questions. The older I get, the less concerned I am...
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Doing Philosophy, Podcasts
Seeing the Generative Story of Our Time
We are fluent in the story of our time marked by catastrophe and dysfunction. That is real — but it’s not the whole story of us. There is also an ordinary and abundant unfolding of dignity and care and generosity, of social creativity and evoluti...
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Doing Philosophy
Wisdom Through Awful Grace
Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.Aeschylus Indianapolis was my first grown-up city. Indianapolis was the first p...
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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.
