[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
Being Easily Pleased
One key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.Mark Nepo There is beautiful grace in being easily pleased. I want to be the person who has a perpetually positive, genuinely honest, cloud-with-a-silver-lining, roll with the punches, serenity-prayer...
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Doing Philosophy
Revealing Who We Are
No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their heart. - Mark Nepo What makes us scared to fly? Not being "ready." Are we ever really "ready" we start something new? Have we prepared enough? Are we...
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Doing Philosophy
The Starfish Story
I started a term of service as an AmeriCorps Member in September of 1994, during the first year of AmeriCorps. I served my community in support of a state-wide scholarship initiative in Indiana. President Bill Clinton swore us in via satellite from t...
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Doing Philosophy
We Are Born Singing
My life flows on in endless song;Above earth's lamentation,I hear the sweet, though far-off hymnThat hails a new creationRobert Wadsworth Lowry We are born singing and our song unfolds as we live. We must sing right now. We must think of a n...
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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.
