[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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Landscape with Sage and the Names of My Children
I put the earth/ all its charms/ within me/ into each waiting pocket lip and ear.
Keetje Kuipers
Paying attention looks like this. Paying attention looks like putting the earth and all its charms within me into each waiting pocket lip and ear. That feels right. Paying attention begins with the earth and ends with pockets, lips, and ears. Let me explain. We pay attention and we carry it all with us. We take it all in and we carry it with us. We share because the earth’s charms are meant to be experienced together. We create because earth’s charms are meant to be multiplied. We begin and end because the earth’s charms are impermanent. Paying attention looks like prayer when we think about it like this.
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.
