[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
Counting Her Minutes: Publishers Weekly Talks With Kate Bowler
Work makes my world bigger. It gives me a sense that while we are all broken, we are broken open to each other. Work lets me connect. And there is joy in paying attention, not necessarily to find solutions but to make meaning out of a situation. When...
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Doing Philosophy
A Stage-4 Cancer Patient Shares The Pain And Clarity Of Living ‘Scan-To-Scan’
I mean, it's so funny. It's just that I really had to rethink what trust and hope looks like if I'm just living scan to scan. Like, what does it mean to experience - I don't know - proximity to God or a sense of faithfulness without actually thinking...
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Doing Philosophy
We can’t upgrade our lives. We can only live them.
The problem with our lives is that we cannot solve them. We can only live them.Kate Bowler in "We can't upgrade our lives. We can only live them." My struggle to upgrade my life is a long tale. It started long before I read self-help books, though...
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Doing Philosophy
Death, the Prosperity Gospel, and Me
Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard.Kate Bowler, "Death, the Prosperity Gospel, and Me" I struggle with the meaning of blessing. It sets up a false binary between being good (and being blessed) and being bad (and being damned). I know this is a ...
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From 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.
