[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: Doing Philosophy
Doing Philosophy
What Your Life Asks of You
How are you tending/ to the emerging story of your life? -Carol Hegedus In my desire to be present, to be wide awake, I am keeping track of the emerging story of my life in several ways. It feels ambitious and necessary and challenging to approach...
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Doing Philosophy
Practicing
As a man in his last breath drops all he is carrying, each breath is a little death that can set us free. - Mark Nepo The lightness of breath. I understand breathing is central to life, but it wasn't until I started practicing yoga and tr...
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Doing Philosophy
The Ear as Petal
The ear is only a petal that grows from the heart. When we hear each other, it all becomes a garden. - Mark Nepo I struggle with listening. I experience hearing loss. I will start wearing hearing aids this week to help me with hearing. But, he...
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Doing Philosophy
Here and There
Here is always beneath There. - Mark NepoMark Nepo What I Know For Sure About Here and There There is bigger in our memories. Memories are There. My memories are big. The church I attended as a child. My high school. The house in which I gre...
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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.
