[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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Poetry
Prayers Like Shoes
I wear prayers like shoes. Pull’em on quiet each morning take me through the uncertain day. — Ruth Forman DOWNTOWN I have lived in cities for many years. Several cities. Several climates. Same situation. I have walked down my street befor...
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Paying Attention
Of love and care
A shared space, of love and care, above all for the stranger. Michael D. Higgins Why is it particularly important to love and care for the stranger? (Shouldn't we start by loving and caring for friends and family?) Let me start by saying an ethos ...
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Doing Philosophy
Clarity: Give Love Words
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. bell hooks Chapter One of All About Love: New Visions, Clarity: Give Love Words...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Great Love and Miracles
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather If we pay attention, it is easy to feel like love is lost. If we pay attention, it is easy to forget that to love one another is the most powerful thing we can do. If we pay attent...
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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.
