[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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Doing Philosophy
For What Are We Saving?
If the love I have isn’t working, what good is money? Money does not bring happiness. Current happiness research tells us that: Money doesn't buy happiness. Lottery winnings create only temporary, short-term happiness. Relationships are a key fac...
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Doing Philosophy
In the Living
Every person’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries they would put. We act it a life, before we apprehend it as truth. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Years ago, a psychic I visited on Dupont Circle told me I would be a famous write...
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Doing Philosophy
More Power to You
Originally, the word power meant able to be. In time, it was contracted to mean to be able. We suffer the difference. - Mark Nepo I have never been comfortable with power. (And, it is not just because I have felt the sting of loss on many occasion...
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Doing Philosophy
Behind the Urgency
When feeling urgent, you must slow down. - Mark Nepo In this time of information overload, stressful jobs, competing demands, and heart breaking chaos, everything can feel urgent. Everything can feel four-alarm-fire-critical. Everything can feel hea...
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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.
