[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 Step to Others
We wander and think no one will ever find us. And lifting our sorry head, we are next to each other. - Mark Nepo The step to others urges us to begin. Beginnings are powerful. Not that there is a competition between the importance of beginnings...
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Doing Philosophy
Surfacing Through
This night will pass. Then we have work to do. Everything has to do with loving and not loving. - Rumi Things I Have Learned Surfacing Through Big Mistakes Surfacing through. I want to think about surfacing through in terms of making sense o...
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Doing Philosophy
Live In Your Hands
Living In My Hands As someone who has studied wide-awakeness for a long time, I need to be reminded that wide-awakeness is about living in our hands. It is about getting out of our heads and into the world, the body, the dirt. It is about con...
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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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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.
