[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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Poetry
Aimless Love
But my heart is always standing on its tripod,ready for the next arrow.From Billy Collins' "Aimless Love" I fall in love 1,000 times a day. Falling in love, in this context, is about paying attention, wonder, amazement, joy, curiosity, and all thi...
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Poetry
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling) ...
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Poetry
Love – is anterior to Life –
Love - is anterior to Life -/ Posterior - to Death -/ Initial of Creation, and/ The Exponent of Earth -Emily Dickinson What is the substance of Love in our lives? Where do we learn to Love? How do we Love, especially when Love is tested and requir...
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Doing Philosophy
Love as the Practice of Freedom
Without an ethic of love shaping the direction of our political vision and our radical aspirations, we are often seduced, in one way or the other, into continued allegiance to systems of domination—imperialism, sexism, racism, classism.bell hooks i...
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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.
