[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
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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Doing Philosophy
Teachers Are Everywhere
Teachers arise from somewhere within me that is beyond me, the way the dark soil that is not the root holds the root and feeds the flower.Mark Nepo Our teachers are all around us. They are more than the people who taught us how to read and write a...
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Doing Philosophy
Objects As Teacher
"I'm not comfortable talking about my strengths, but there is one thing I know I am good at. I have talent, an instinct for finding what teaches me. Even when what I need presents itself in the most unlikely form."Sue Bender Chapter Six in Everyda...
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Doing Philosophy
Generosity
“It is the heart that does the giving; the fingers only let go.” —Nigerian proverb Chapter XI, "Generosity," in Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home made me think about the simplicity of generosity. Bender makes the poin...
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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.
