[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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Category: Books Falling
Books Falling
Goodbye to All That
How many miles to Babylon?/ Three score miles and ten-/ Can I get there by candlelight?/ Yes, and back again- If your feet are nimble and light/ You can get there by candlelight.English Nursery Rhyme In her essay "Goodbye to All That," Joan Didion...
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There Is A Season
"Seasons is a wise metaphor for the movement of life, I think. It suggests that life is neither a battlefield nor a game of chance but something infinitely richer, more promising, more real. The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycle of the...
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Robert Lawrence Smith and Truth
"Truth is whatever satisfies the soul."Walt Whitman "Truth" is chapter 4 in Robert Lawrence Smith's A Quaker Book of Wisdom. Smith explains that truth is a fundamental tenant of Quaker Life. Truth, and how to define it and find it in our world, is...
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A Quaker Legacy: Ten Life Lessons
Have the patience to be silent and listen for truth. Then have the courage to let the best that is in you direct your actions. Recognize that your true identity is nothing more or less than the way your conduct your public and private affairs - the w...
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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.
