[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: Looking Back to Look Forward
To see takes time.
Georgia O’Keefe
I have been blogging since 2007. For most of that time, my posts have appeared daily. The main purpose of my blog has been to practice the wide-awakeness that I have studied for more than 20 years. For me, practice has meant paying more attention to life, developing a writing habit, becoming a better reader and writer, and creating a community through thinking out loud through my writing. Recently, I have been editing posts that I have written over the years. The editorial process has allowed me to revisit many of the themes, ideas, and feelings that have framed my writing. I suppose that is what O’Keefe is talking about when she says it takes time to see. It takes time to see angels in a marble slab. It takes time to see peaches on trees in the spring. It takes time to see life’s poetry unfold in perfect time. It takes time to see the stones of our lives being carried as mountains are moved. It takes time to see the why, the not yet, the what if.
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.
