[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
Chasing The Butterfly
In release, we begin. - Mark Nepo There are many things that need to be released in life. Anger. Resentment. Jealousy. Judgement. Anxiety. When held inside, negative thoughts and feelings eat away at who we are. I have chosen a word of the year for ...
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Doing Philosophy
The Risk to Bloom
And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom. - Anais Nin I am not the best bloomer. I truly want to bloom and flourish and thrive. I want the world to hear my heart's song. I want to release t...
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Doing Philosophy
A Game of See Saw
The greatest defense is being who you are. - Mark Nepo We live in an abundant world. We have the capacity to feed all people. We have the ability to cure many diseases: and for the cures that don't exist, we have the ingenuity and knowledge to get t...
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Doing Philosophy
Feeling Our Way Through
Underneath, there is only one emotion. - Mark Nepo My parent's are selling my childhood home: the home my family has lived in for 40 years. The home where I had my first kiss and drank my first beer and fell in love with Van Halen and writing. Whe...
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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.
