[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!
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.
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.
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Summer
Last summer, two discrete young snakes left their skin on my small porch, two mornings in a row. Being post-modern now, I pretended as if I did not see them, nor understand what I knew to be circling inside me.From "Summ...
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Everything Happens: Learning to Hold On, Learning to Let Go with Richard Rohr
Life is painful. Period. But are there some aspects of our faith or our posture toward the world that can change how we experience it?Father Richard Rohr is everyone’s favorite preacher of love. Love for each other. Love from God.Everything Happens...
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One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List
Everybody pretends that you die only once. But that’s not true. You can die a thousand possible futures in the course of a single, stupid life.- Kate Bowler in "One thing I don't plan to do before I die is make a bucket list" I will admit it. I ...
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Living the Comma #31
Offerings. Pentecost. Kate Bowler. For every book, both as a historian and as a person trying to find their way in the world, I mostly think about my writing in terms of trying to dismantle a cultural myth. Everything Happens for a Reason&nb...
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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.
