[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
Starting
By indirections find directions out.William Shakespeare "Starting," the third chapter in Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, is about, as Marie Forleo would say, figuring it out. Figuring it out means doing the next right thing. ...
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Doing Philosophy
Just Power
When the urge arises in the mind/ To feelings of desire or wrathful hate,/ Do not act! Be silent, do not speak!/ And like a log of wood be sure to stay.Shantideva I am searching to know what to do with all my anger and sadness. So much about where...
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Doing Philosophy
Split at the Root
I performed Adrienne Rich's poem, "For the Record" in an Oral Interpretation class in the Theatre Department at Indiana University in 1992. The poem is a statement on the atrocities of WWI. It ends in a question: "and ask whose signature/is stampe...
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Doing Philosophy, Poetry
That Little Beast
That pretty little beast, a poem, has a mind of its own. Sometimes I want it to crave apples but it wants red meat. Sometimes I want to walk peacefully on the shore and it wants to take off all its clothes and dive in. From Mary O...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
