[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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Wilder Than We Ever
The one who pours is wilder than we/ ever become drinking, wilder than// wine, the one who fills to the rim/ and leaves to live in absence with// a toast: Go home. There’s nothing/ for you here. A pearl in the shell// does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl/ without a shell, a mindful flooding,// candle turned moth, head become empty/ jar, bird setting nest, love lived.
Rumi
I want a pearl life — a life of ocean swimming, mountain climbing, hammock napping, flame dancing, nest building, beginner’s mind wondering, and more. Home is magic there. Heart is full there. Hands are held there. Life feels heavy here. Living to survive. Chaos distorting thought. Fear hiding breath. I believe in the better angels. Better angels are wilder than ever. I am ready to be a better angel. I am ready to be love lived.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
