[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
To Be Awake
There is always purpose in being, but not always a being in purpose. - Mark Nepo I have sought to be awake to life for a long time. I founded the Wide-Awakeness Project in 2003 to understand and live awake to life. My larger wide-awakeness proj...
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Doing Philosophy
Feeling Beyond The Hurt
Withstanding the tension between opposites until we know it is "enough" releases us from the swing between one extreme and the other. - Helen Luke Our deepest wounds can be the hardest to move through. Pain can be inflicted by the ones closest to u...
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Doing Philosophy
When Cut In Two
The cut worm forgives the plow. - William Blake Think about times you have been cut in two. Divorce. Death of a loved one. Getting fired. Breaking up. The list of cuts can go on and on. Each one tearing us apart in the places that are most sensitive...
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Doing Philosophy
Breaking Patterns
If I contradict myself, I contradict myself. I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman We are all a composite of beautiful contradictions and multitudes This is exceptionally hard when my triggers, which may not be triggers for others, are set off and...
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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.
