[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: How to Friend
Love is a friendship set to music
Joseph Campbell
Friendship is a choice. It is a choice to hear love’s music. It is a choice to feel loved in the parts of ourselves that know shame and anger and pain. It is a choice to share ourselves with others. It is a choice to know interdependence deep in our bones. It is a choice to walk hand-in-hand, side-by-side, forward. It is a choice to witness our joys and sorrows. It is a choice to move through seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, and lifetimes together. It is a choice to move through the as if and not yet. It is a choice to find our edges, our breath, our dreams together.
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.
