[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
The Necessary Privilege
A Necessary Privilege A necessary privilege is something that we might need convincing to appreciate. It is something that, a first glance, might not feel like a good thing. It is something that our natural pace and inclination might not initially...
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Doing Philosophy
Being Held
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help. Father Thomas Keating When we ask for help We figure out what help we need Sometimes it is hard to know what help we need. We know we are feeling depressed and upset an...
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Doing Philosophy
We Need Others
Maybe that’s why I want to touch people so often—it’s only another way of talking. - Georgia O’Keefe We need others. We need rocks of safety on which to gather with others. We need rocks of safety on which to stand and rest and breathe ...
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Doing Philosophy
What We Bring Along
A river doesn’t hold all the water that passes through it. Mark Nepo My parents are selling our family house. The house that I have called home since I was 8 years old. The house that has been my North Star. The house that has been constancy ...
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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.
