[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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The Pedigree of Honey
The Pedigree of Honey/ Does not concern the Bee -/ A Clover, any time, to him,/ Is Aristocracy –
Emily Dickinson
Finding sweetness in life matters. Like the bee finds clover on the journey to make honey, we must find sweetness. Sweetness is individual, joyous, and sustaining. Sweetness is all around, inside, and beside us. Sweetness is vital, beautiful, and royal. I would even call it sacred.
We find sweetness in the most obvious of places. In our relationships with ourselves and others. In the things we do no matter what. In our gratitude lists. In what we take pictures of and talk about. In our starts and finishes. In the minutes right after we wake up and before we go to sleep. In tears and laughter. In kisses and hugs. In a meal that tastes like it was not made by mortal hands.
Ultimately, there is no Pedigree to sweetness. There is no best in sweetness show. There is no line of sweetness succession. Honey is, honey is, honey is.
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.
