[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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Tag: bell hooks
Doing Philosophy
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 arrive.” Thich Nhat Hanh, as quoted in bell hooks interview with Thich Nh...
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Doing Philosophy
What bell hooks Knew About Being a Kentucky Writer
listen little sisterangels make their hope herein these hillsfollow meI will guide youFrom Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place, by bell hooks. Quoted in Crystal Wilkinson's Atlantic essay, "What bell hooks Knew About Being a Kentucky Writer"...
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Doing Philosophy
Clarity: Give Love Words
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb. bell hooks Chapter One of All About Love: New Visions, Clarity: Give Love Words...
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Doing Philosophy
Love as the Practice of Freedom
Without an ethic of love shaping the direction of our political vision and our radical aspirations, we are often seduced, in one way or the other, into continued allegiance to systems of domination—imperialism, sexism, racism, classism.bell hooks i...
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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.
