[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

Getting At What Matters
If you want to be truly understood, you need to say everything three times, in three different ways. Once for each ear . . . and once for the heart. - Paula Underwood Spencer Do I want to be understood, or sometimes do I just want to be right? Do...
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Not Two
To reach Accord, just say, "Not Two!” Seng Ts’an At This Time At this time of deep division. At this time of great anger. At this time where walls, rhetoric, and power are being ab/used to make us remain Two. At this time when many...
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To See with Love
Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. - Jack Kornfield When I Firs Got Glasses I was in seventh grade when I first started wearing glasses. (I would not get contacts for several years, so glasses it was.) Glasses changed my life. I rememb...
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Remembering and Forgetting
What can I do to remember who I really am? Juan Ramon Jimenez I write Writing connects me with something deep inside my soul. It always has. I spent hours upon hours writing as a child. As soon as I learned to read, I wanted to write, too. Somet...
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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.