[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
At the Pace of What Is Real
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. - Seng-Ts’an Real Is real your best friend, your spouse, your family? Is real anything you can put on your Resume? Is real your checking account? Is real the people wi...
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Doing Philosophy
How The Light Gets In
I want to argue in defense of breaking. Sometimes life is hard and the glass of which we are made refuses to be malleable, even under intense heat. We keep our form, holding on to the shape of what is like our lives depend on it, finding survival in ...
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Doing Philosophy
The Best Advice I Ever Received
I need advice. I seek second opinions. I ask questions. In general, I do not think these are negative traits. I like the concept of due diligence in all things. My researcher’s mind feeds on information. This often serves me well. (I guard against ...
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Doing Philosophy, Publication
Ring of Safety
Who sees all beings in his own Self and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear. The Isa Upanishad We are living in a fearful time. It is hard – right here, right now – to see ourselves in one another. Isolation. Fear. Anger. ...
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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.
