[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, Poetry
Kindness
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,only kindness that ties your shoesand sends you out into the day to gaze at bread,only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayIt is I you have been looking for,and then goes wi...
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Doing Philosophy
Taking A Walk #19
Taking A Walk With Andrea Gibson I was introduced to Andrea Gibson as part of Jane Ratcliffe’s Beyond newsletter community. “Becoming Love: A Conversation with Andrea Gibson,” their two-part Beyond conversation, broke my heart open and made ...
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Doing Philosophy
A Firefly of Love
Who knows that in the depth of the ravine of the mountain of my hidden heart a firefly of my love is aflame. Abutsu-Ni There are a million names for the firefly of my love. My love is called hope. My hope rests gently in the arms of trust a...
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Doing Philosophy
Taking A Walk #18
Taking a walk with Naomi Shihab Nye I am an avid On Being listener. Have been for years. I listened to Naomi Shihab Nye, “Before You Know Kindness As the Deepest Thing Inside...” (Link to OnBeing conversation.) From that moment on, I have...
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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.
