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[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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Unexpectedly Tender

What you don't know is that life can thrive in wreckage. A few years ago, we lived in Miami. We had moved there from Cincinnati for my husband's job. During the more than six years we lived there, we visited the Florida Keys — a twoish hour driv...

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A certain slant of Light

Winter Afternoons – / That oppresses, like the Heft/ Of Cathedral Tunes – / Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – / We can find no scar,/ But internal difference – / Where the Meanings, are – None may teach it – An...

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What I Learned from 36 Days of Deep Journaling

Throughout December, I imperfectly followed Beth Kempton's Deep Journaling exercises based on her book, Kokoro: Japanese Wisdom for a Life Well-Lived. (I am just now gathering my thoughts to share them.) Kempton describes kokoro as "A beautiful untra...