[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 Wisdom in Blinking
Asleep too long, we need to wake. Awake too long, we need to sleep.Mark Nepo What We Learn by Blinking The Power of Rest We all need rest. Rest - even for a second, the time it takes to shut our eyes and breathe - can be life sustaining. We ...
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Doing Philosophy
The Night Sky
What if I could fly? - a question I ask myself. To what things am I tethered? I am tethered to judgement of myself and others. I am tethered to past failure and its prediction of my future success. I am tethered to the endless race of starting ...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Word of the Year 2020: Peace
Make me an instrument of peace. Let me find comfort, solace, and light in times of conflict, doubt, and darkness. Make me an instrument of peace. Let me choose forgiveness, humility, and compassion in times of anger, separation, and blindness. Make m...
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Doing Philosophy
To Live Out Loud
We are here to live out loud.Emile Zola I used to sing at the top of my lungs as a child. I would swing and sing at the small park in my neighborhood. I would sing alone in broad daylight. I would sing for hours. I would sing from the place in ...
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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.
