[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
A Set of Inner Doors
The stuff of our lives doesn't change. It is we who change in relation to it. - Molly Vass This passage makes me think of an assignment in a graduate school class many years ago. We were asked to write our Currere. A Currere is an autobiographical r...
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Doing Philosophy
Yearning
Before we blink, we know each other. Mark Nepo How many names do we have for knowing? Best friends. Soul mates. Family. Neighbors. Community. Can that knowing exist between strangers? Do we have special name for that? Humanity? Compassion? Kindne...
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Doing Philosophy
Two Heart Cells Beating
If you place two living heart cells from different people in a Petrie dish, they will in time find and maintain a third and common beat. -Molly Vass I have lived inside big cities for many years. I love walking places. I love that everyone looks d...
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Doing Philosophy
The Unspoiled Clearing
I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy. Rainer Maria Rilke I have been asking myself what is holy for a long time. (That question has floated around my head since I was a middle-schooler studying for my Confirmati...
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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.
