[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 Risk to Be Touched
Touch bleeds the heart of its pressure. - Mark Nepo Touch is risky. Touch is powerful. Touch is not neutral. It can heal and it can hurt. It can comfort and it can cause pain. It can connect and it can isolate. Touch is complex. I want to be a hugger...
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Doing Philosophy, Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake: Looking Back to Look Forward
To see takes time. Georgia O'Keefe I have been blogging since 2007. For most of that time, my posts have appeared daily. The main purpose of my blog has been to practice the wide-awakeness that I have studied for more than 20 years. For me, practi...
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Doing Philosophy
Allowing The Pain In
I am becoming water: I let everything rinse its grief in me And reflect as much light as I can. - Mark Nepo The Buddhist call to breathe in the suffering of the world and breathe out light seems important right now. These are d...
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Doing Philosophy
The Monkey and the River
It is said a great Zen teacher asked an initiate to sit by a stream until he heard all the water had to teach. After days of bending his mind around the scene, a small monkey happened by, and, in one seeming bound of joy, splashed about in the stream...
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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.
