[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: Telling About It
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.Mary Oliver For this week's Weekly Wide-Awake, I have selected a few things I have written over the yers as an attempt to "tell about" my experience. In telling about that...
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Doing Philosophy, Publication
Voice, Choice, and Access: The Outcomes of Inclusive Arts Education
Note: This article originally appeared in the Creative Spirit, a newsletter published by VSA arts. Central to VSA arts’ mission is understanding the impact of quality, inclusive, arts-based instruction for students with disabilities. T...
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Doing Philosophy
Five bell hooks Quotes To Carry With You While Trying To Create A More Equitable World
Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion. bell hooks. As quoted in Janice Gassam Asare's Forbes article "Five bell hooks Quotes To Carry With You While Trying To Create A More Equitable World"...
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Doing Philosophy
What bell hooks Knew About Being a Kentucky Writer
listen little sisterangels make their hope herein these hillsfollow meI will guide youFrom Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place, by bell hooks. Quoted in Crystal Wilkinson's Atlantic essay, "What bell hooks Knew About Being a Kentucky Writer"...
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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.
