[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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Love – is anterior to Life –
Love – is anterior to Life -/ Posterior – to Death -/ Initial of Creation, and/ The Exponent of Earth –
Emily Dickinson
What is the substance of Love in our lives? Where do we learn to Love? How do we Love, especially when Love is tested and requires forgiveness, humility, and courage? Does true love exist, and what does it feel like? If we are asked to be the hands of Love in the world, what is the work of our hands?
These questions ask a lot of Love, and I think that is alright. Love is a big deal. The romantic kind of Love. The friendship kind of Love. The family kind of Love. The humankind kind of Love. The Love of our earth. The Love of generations. All types of Love describe when one exists in relationship with the mutual care and well-being of themselves and another.
That is a wordy way to describe Love, but I think it captures the complexity to which Dickinson points. Love is the beginning, middle, and end. Love is Exponential in a way that defies explanation. You know it when you live it.
About Katie
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.
