[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
Friendship
Nothing among human things has such power to keep our gaze fixed ever more intensely upon God than friendship.Simone Weil My family has enjoyed lifetime friendships for generations. I learned about lifetime friendships from a deep and sacred place...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Seeing and Being Seen
“Because so many of the poems tonight felt a little like our own stories. Like we saw and were seen. And how crazy would it be if I did that for someone else?” ― Elizabeth Acevedo I hope to shine a light on how our individual stories tie us ...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Turning Light into Food
We still might feed the dark thing in us that grows away from the light until against all sense we mysteriously flower in the other direction.Mark Nepo I know how I turn light into food in my life. I don't always choose that path, much to my disma...
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Doing Philosophy, Health
Miracle Thinking
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein I was diagnosed with Turner syndrome at the age of 15. Turner syndrome is a genetic condition that...
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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.
