[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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Little Green
Just a little green
From Joni Mitchell’s “Little Green” from the album Blue
Like the color when the spring is born
There’ll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there’ll be sorrow
Spring is about a little green. A little green of hope. A little green of change. A little green of growth. A little green of possibility. A little green of as if. A little green of not yet. A little green of grace. A little green of music.
Little green light is different light. Little green time is different time. Little green air is different air. Little green perspective is different perspective. Little green breath is different breath. Little green mornings are different mornings. Little green nights are different nights. Little green tides are different tides. Little green moons are different moons.
We learn from little green. We learn about life’s impermanence. We learn about the strength of scar tissue. We learn that life is beautiful and hard. We learn that seasons move in perfect time.
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.
