[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
A Game of See Saw
The greatest defense is being who you are. - Mark Nepo We live in an abundant world. We have the capacity to feed all people. We have the ability to cure many diseases: and for the cures that don't exist, we have the ingenuity and knowledge to get t...
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Doing Philosophy
Feeling Our Way Through
Underneath, there is only one emotion. - Mark Nepo My parent's are selling my childhood home: the home my family has lived in for 40 years. The home where I had my first kiss and drank my first beer and fell in love with Van Halen and writing. Whe...
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Doing Philosophy
My Grandmothers’ Community
What It Means to Care and Tend A big lesson my grandmothers taught me, and there were a lot of them over the years for which I am profoundly grateful, was how to care for and tend things in my life. Whether it be our relationships, our passions an...
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Doing Philosophy
Being Direct
Everyone is bald underneath their hair. - Susan McHenry I wrote an apology blog post after a break up a few years ago. It was a peace offering after I stopped wanting to spit tacks in the eyes of the man who had broken my heart. Heart breaks are a...
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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.
