[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 Thing in the Way
We tend to make the thing in the way, the way. - Mark Nepo Have you ever tried to run with a rock in your shoe? One day before a run, I started to put my running shoes on and a rock was caught in my sock. The rock was the thing in the way. I got my...
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Doing Philosophy
Greed
The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one. - Mark Nepo To people who gather all the cherries. To people who are never satisfied. To people who live under the weight of more. To people who measu...
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Doing Philosophy
A Legacy of Sadness
Atlas wasn't forced to hold up the world. He was convinced that if he didn't, the world would fall. - Mark Nepo I carry sadness. The kind of sadness that really is bigger than one name or cause. The kind of sadness that immediately, when I think...
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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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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.
