[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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Poetry
For Warmth
I hold my face between my hands.No, I am not crying.I hold my face between my handsto keep my loneliness warm —two hands protecting,two hands nourishing,two hands to preventmy soul from leaving mein anger. - Thich Nhat Hanh, "For Warmth" Grace a...
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Weekly Wide-Awake
Weekly Wide-Awake #15
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. Jelly Roll Morton Summer is nature’s jazz. Improvisational and surprising. Blooming and joyous. Bounteous and overflowing. Hot days and long nights. Sweet like front porch tea. Its rhyt...
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Doing Philosophy
Taking A Walk #21
Taking A Walk With Thich Nhat Hanh Building a Community of Love “The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arri...
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Doing Philosophy
Conscious Being: Wisdom of Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy’s work offers a profound connectedness to the world, a mystical nature to life, and a radical notion of self as expansive and always in relation to everything else. — Naropa University Listen to Conscious Being: Wisdom of Joanna Ma...
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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.
