[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, Podcasts
Your Elusive Creative Genius
‘Ole!’ to you, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up! — Elizabeth Gilbert In a TED talk, Your Elusive Creative Genius, delivered following the global success of her memoir Eat Pray Love, Eli...
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Course Work, Doing Philosophy
A Voice From The Stillness
My guardian angel told me to be still and know. Be still and know. Be still and know. Stillness as the synapses of the brain connecting. Stillness as truth and peace. Stillness as awe and attention. Stillness as true love. How do we find stillness...
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Doing Philosophy
Taking A Walk #26
Taking A Walk With Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things Dear Sugar, I read your column religiously. I’m twenty-two. From what I can tell by your writing, you’re in your early forties. My question is short and sweet: What would you tell ...
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Doing Philosophy
Split at the Root
I performed Adrienne Rich's poem, "For the Record" in an Oral Interpretation class in the Theatre Department at Indiana University in 1992. The poem is a statement on the atrocities of WWI. It ends in a question: "and ask whose signature/is stampe...
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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.
