[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, Health
Deciduous
1 : falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle <deciduous leaves><deciduous scales> 2 : having deciduous parts <maples, birches, and other decid...
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Doing Philosophy
Starting
By indirections find directions out.William Shakespeare "Starting," the third chapter in Sue Bender's Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, is about, as Marie Forleo would say, figuring it out. Figuring it out means doing the next right thing. ...
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Paying Attention
In Search of Delight — Delights 1-10
Earlier this month, I started taking a writing class. We are writing weekly exercises inspired by Ross Gay's Book of Delights. Part of our charge is to find, and write about, a delight every day, as Gay had done in writing his book. I hope to share m...
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Living the Comma #46
BEGINNING #3. Good Stories. Ganesha. Beginning Songs. Then what in your opinion is a good story? ‘What it’s always been, monkey,’ Ganesha said. ‘One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love fo...
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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.
