[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
Holding On
Perfect is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire I have struggled with the paralysis of analysis. I have struggled with an inability to recognize good enough. I have struggled to find the golden median. I have used each of these excuses to disengage, re...
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Doing Philosophy
More Than Our Mistakes
The buffalo fed on the buffalo grass that was fertilized by their own droppings. This grass had deep roots bound to the earth and was resistant to drought. - David Peat What I Learn From Making Mistakes Mistakes are life's fertilizer. Just as buff...
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Doing Philosophy
Patience
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These are your greatest treasures. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. - Lao-Tzu Why is patience so difficult? Waiting Goethe t...
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Doing Philosophy
Walking North
Walk long enough and we all trade places. - Mark Nepo I have always loved the poem "Footprints in the Sand." It's message resonates with me. The poem tells me: we are not alone. Though the poem speaks directly to a relationship with God, I believe i...
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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.
