[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

Living and Watching
How many ways can a statue dream of living? Every time I reach for you, we begin. We begin. - Mark Nepo Watching life. One of my favorite Marie Forleoisms is, "Clarity comes from engagement." Engaging in life is the exact opposite of watching li...
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Being Shaped by Others
The whole world could praise Sung Jung-Tzu and it wouldn’t make him exert himself. The whole world could condemn him and it wouldn’t make him mope. He drew a clear line between the internal and external. - Chuang Tzu I have started doing a few...
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Questions Put to the Sick
"When was the last time you sang?” - Question put to the sick by a Native American Medicine Man Note: In a writing class last summer I was asked to write a letter to myself from my guardian angel. That was the last time I remember singing. Dear...
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Making Amends
There is hurt and there is love. They roll us through the days like a turtle down a hill. All we can do when on our back is roll one more time and head for the sea. - Mark Nepo I have really worked on my ability to make amends in recent years. Ma...
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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.