[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Doing Philosophy

To Count by Touching
We need to count by touching not by adding and subtracting. - Mark Nepo Counting by Touching We begin when we count by touching. Our capacity to begin is a gift. Fresh starts. Do overs. Clean slates. We can begin again and again and again. The onl...
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Sharing the Climb
We share the climb with those who come before, are here with us right now, and those who will be here after we pass from this earth. We stand on shoulders. We stand on all kinds of shoulders. We stand on the shoulders of those who have sacrificed f...
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The One Direction
Live deep enough and there is only one direction. - Mark Nepo What is living in one direction? There are many names for our one direction - our path, our still small voice, our truth, our north star, our compass, our calling, our light, perhaps even ...
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These Are the Signs
Pain is often a sign that something has to change. - Mark Nepo Listening to pain. The difference between pain and misery. I have heard that pain is necessary and misery is optional. I am not sure what that means. I understand pain is necessary, bu...
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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.