Unlocking Us: Bono

[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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I have always secretly wanted to be a rock star. Never played an instrument beyond the french horn in middle school band. Though I performed at a professional dinner theatre when I was young, I haven’t sung in public for going on 20 years, the rock star mystic fascinates me. I know Blue and Tapestry by heart. Sheryl Crow is on my vision board. I hear as much live music as I can. This is all to say that Brene Brown’s open-hearted conversation with Bono touched the part of my soul that yells loudly and cries frequently and questions just about everything and loves intensely. I was immediately my 20-year old self standing at my first stadium show watching U2, remembering the energy and emotion of it all. I remember having the overwhelming feeling of joy and communion. None of us were alone in that space. Listening to this conversation, I felt less alone again.

Songs of Surrender and Carrying the Weight of Our Contradictions, Part 1 of 2

Songs of Surrender and Carrying the Weight of Our Contraditions, Part 2 of 2