[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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Doing Philosophy
I Am Not Yet
A few years ago, Greg and I were standing at the Beirgarten at Epcot when a man asked me to take a picture of him with his group. He explained he was celebrating his 60th birthday at Disney World with his family, and the guys in the group had wandere...
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Weekly Wide-Awake: Finding My Why
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg This week we mark the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Our world is a more just and comp...
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Books Falling
Sufficient
When a poet rubs a piece of furniture, when he puts a little fragrant wax on his table with woolen cloth, he registers this object officially as a member of the human household.Rilke Chapter IX of Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Ho...
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Doing Philosophy
Off the Merry-Go-Round
No amount of thinking can stop thinking. - Mark Nepo Clarity Comes From Engagement One of my favorite thought leaders is Marie Forleo. She teaches that clarity comes from engagement. That makes sense to me. We get clarity when we get out of our he...
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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.
