[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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Books Falling
Untamed: Caged
Glennon Doyle's third memoir, Untamed makes me think. It was published in early Spring 2020, just as we all began to stay inside. Part One is entitled, "Caged." Doyle writes in pre-pandemic frankness about the cages she experiences. She writes about ...
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Books Falling
Not Causing Harm
It's a transformative experience to pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.Pema Chodron Chapter 6, "Not Causing Harm" in Pema Chodron's W...
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Books Falling
Widening the Circle of Compassion
Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and com...
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Poetry
Forgetfulness
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember,it is not poised on the tip of your tongueor even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.From Billy Collins' "Forgetfulness" I struggle to remember a lot of things. The names of state capitals. ...
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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.
