[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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Gratitude and Story: On Telling The Stories We Have Inside
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
Jerome Bruner
I began my gratitude experiment in the summer of 2017. It seemed at the time, and that has only continued to be the case, there was nothing that everyone could talk about. I was interested in conversation that comes from a place of goodness rather than hate. I had been focusing on gratitude in my yoga practice for a while, so I decided to start talking about gratitude. Gratitude is positive, kind, and productive. In a world starving, crying, and hurting that made sense.
About Katie
Born in 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.
