[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
Love Shown
The Love we show saves the Love we hide, the way a sprig in sun feeds its unseen root. Mark Nepo It is easy to forget that the stuff that happens to us underneath the surface of our lives really matters, especially when we are young and invincib...
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Doing Philosophy
A Profound Bow
All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.Lao Tzu Read my thoughts on the power of humility here....
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Doing Philosophy
Love Like Water
Only love with no thought of return can soften the point of suffering.Mark Nepo Love like high thread count sheets. High thread count sheet love is soft and comforting and luxurious. It wraps and enfolds and caresses. It spoils and pampers and ...
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Doing Philosophy
Each Is A Living Flute
Suffering makes an instrument of each of us,So that standing naked, holes and all,The unseen vitalities can be heardThrough our simplified livesMark Nepo Make My Life A Flute I have never been able to play a flute. I try too hard to force my br...
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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.
