[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: A New Year
“Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
This week marked the High Holy Days of Judaism. I am not Jewish, but the High Holy Days have always fascinated me. They are about reflection, atonement, and celebration. They mark where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. My birthday happened this week, too. In the midst of Now – in all the grief and noise and thunder – I paused to think about serendipty. I shared a poem for a new year. I gave advice to my twentysomething self. I considered the rhythm of the seasons and life always moving forward. I also remembered a conversation about birthdays that happened in Epcot several years ago.
I took the opportunity to ring out the false and ring in the true.
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.
