[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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Once In A Very Blue Moon
Just once in a very blue moon
From Nanci Griffith’s “Once In A Very Blue Moon“
Just once in a very blue moon
Just once in a very blue moon
And I feel one comin’ on soon
Getting over. Moving On. Mending broken hearts. Brushing off my britches. None of it is easy. None of it is a one and off proposition. None of it ever completely heals, scar tissue remains. We can become wiser, stronger, and softer. We live from our wounds, and blue moons offer hope, grace, forgiveness, wholeness, and breath. That is the beauty of blue moons.
Perhaps blue moons make forgiveness possible. Perhaps blue moons ease sadness. Perhaps blue moons light the as if. Perhaps blue moons shape our falling apart and coming togethers. Perhaps blue moons create space for miracles and awe.
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.
