[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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Books Falling
It’s Never Too Late
"What makes maitre such a different approach is that we are not trying to solve a problem. We are not striving to make pain go away or to become a better person. In fact, we are giving up control altogether and letting concepts and ideals fall apart....
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Health
30 For Thursday: The Bridge
I ran 6 miles Sunday morning. My route took me over the Rickenbacker Causeway - a bridge so formidable local runners call it "Goliath." I had not run the bridge for months. My "long runs" have stopped at the base of the bridge, about 4.5 miles fro...
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Paying Attention
When I Am 70
A few years ago I was eating dinner in La Conner, Washington. I sat a few tables over from a couple that looked to be in their 70s. We were situated by beautiful windows so as to see the glow of the moon over the narrow channel of water on which La C...
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Books Falling
Conscience
"I saw that there was an infinite ocean of darkness and death, but also an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness."George Fox "Conscience," Chapter 5 in Robert Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom, explores c...
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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.
