[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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Finding My Edge
The same stream of life/ that runs through the world/ runs through my veins. -Rabindranath Tagore "If you don't jump, you will be stuck. FOREVER!" proclaimed my Kiwi tour guide. He looked directly into my eyes. He stared at my soul. We were outsid...
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Doing Philosophy
Here and There
Here is always beneath There. - Mark NepoMark Nepo What I Know For Sure About Here and There There is bigger in our memories. Memories are There. My memories are big. The church I attended as a child. My high school. The house in which I gre...
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Paying Attention
In Touch With Insignificance
I thought I could become wise, but it is much beyond me. Far away is all that has come into being and very, very deep. Who can find? – Ecclesiastes, 7:24-25 A few times in my life I have come in contact with my insignificance. When wonder and a...
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Evening
Another word I love is evening/ for the balance it implies, balancebeing something I struggle with. Jeremy Radin, Evening At this point in my life, I understand the beauty of evening. I frame evening in the wisdom that comes from years, the q...
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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.
