[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
When Things Fall Apart
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.Pema Chodron In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron's discusses several times in her life when things have fallen apart. She...
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Poetry
Diving into the Wreck
I came to explore the wreck./ The words are purposes./ The words are maps./ I came to see the damage that was done/ and the treasures that prevail. From "Diving into the Wreck" — Adrienne Rich Poetry as diving. Poetry as moving in...
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Doing Philosophy
Split at the Root
I performed Adrienne Rich's poem, "For the Record" in an Oral Interpretation class in the Theatre Department at Indiana University in 1992. The poem is a statement on the atrocities of WWI. It ends in a question: "and ask whose signature/is stampe...
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Books Falling
Intimacy with Fear
Fear is the natural reaction to moving closer to the truth Pema Chodron Pema Chodron begins When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice For Difficult Times with a discussion of fear. She explains that we must get to know fear, "looking it right in the ey...
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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.
