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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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Weekly Wide-Awake: There is no Frigate like a Book

There is no Frigate like a Book/To take us Lands away/Nor any Coursers like a Page/Of prancing Poetry./This Traverse may the poorest take/Without oppress of Toll;/How frugal is the Chariot/That bears the Human Soul!Emily Dickinson I have returned ...

Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Good people eat. So do bad people, skinny people, fat people, tall and short ones. Heaven help us we will never master photosynthesis. Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one’s heart in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgen...

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Books Falling Club: Thoughts on Robert Lawrence Smith’s A Quaker Book of Wisdom

Have the patience to be silent and listen for truth. Then have the courage to let the best that is in you direct your actions. Recognize that your true identity is nothing more or less than the way your conduct your public and private affairs – the...