[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
Wu Feng
In the end, it is not enough to think what we know. We must live it. For only by living it can Love show itself as the greatest principle. - Mark Nepo The Well of Ancient Mysteries is across the street from our apartment. To look at it, the Well ...
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Doing Philosophy
The Courage to Join
The real story comes from a love-source that cannot be understood with intellect, but known only as a person is known. – Coleman Barks A love letter to the house in which I grew up. Dear House, You have been a part of my family for 40 years. I...
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Doing Philosophy
It Is Enough
If you can't see what you are looking for, see what is there. - Mark Nepo When is something enough? Something is enough when I am present. Something is enough when I am filled with excitement and energy and passion. Something is enough when I cre...
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Doing Philosophy
Birds and Ornithologists
Birds don’t need ornithologists to fly. – Mark Nepo What does it mean to be awake? As someone who has studied wide-awakeness for many years. As someone who has taken copious fieldnotes and conducted interviews. As someone who has written extens...
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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.
