[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
Along the Way
I learn, by going, where I have to go. - Theodore Roethke Landscape architects refer to the natural paths that form between the paths that are planned and built throughout an outdoor space as desire paths. Desire paths are naturally worn as people c...
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Doing Philosophy
Beneath Problem Solving
Beneath most headaches is a heartache. - Mark Nepo My Truth About Real Problem Solving I am "fine." I know I am not alone in often hiding my problems under a veil of "fine." As Nepo points out, we can often use our heads to try to neutralize the p...
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Doing Philosophy
A Set of Inner Doors
The stuff of our lives doesn't change. It is we who change in relation to it. - Molly Vass This passage makes me think of an assignment in a graduate school class many years ago. We were asked to write our Currere. A Currere is an autobiographical r...
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Doing Philosophy
Yearning
Before we blink, we know each other. Mark Nepo How many names do we have for knowing? Best friends. Soul mates. Family. Neighbors. Community. Can that knowing exist between strangers? Do we have special name for that? Humanity? Compassion? Kindne...
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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.
