[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
A String of Todays
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? - Hillel the Elder My Turner syndrome diagnosis at the age of 15 framed my understanding of now. It framed my understanding of why, too. My dreams and...
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Doing Philosophy
The Risk of Attention
For the raindrop, joy is entering the river. - The Sufi Prophet Ghalib We live in a state of bracketed experience. We are both in experiences and of experiences. Being in and of experiences can be hard to understand. The raindrop is both in and o...
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Doing Philosophy
Being Sad
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlin, is to learn something. - T.H. White I have known sadness in my life. The kind of sadness in which tears flow, my breathing speeds up, and my head hurts. Sadness can fall like a dark cloud, crash lik...
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Doing Philosophy
Through the Wall of Flame
As a frightened man in a burning boat has only one way to the rest of his life, we must move with courage through the wall of flame, into the greater sea. - Mark Nepo Getting Through Really. Completely. Entirely. Through things. Through. Not in fro...
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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.
