[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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Bright Passage
Not necessarily an urge, not immediacy, not definition as truth, but definition as when I notice the flex of my arm when I lift something heavy, to see a particular part working, straining, even, against something else, which is the measure of closing a sentence.
Taylor Johnson
A calling is a heavy weight. Let me explain. There is a certain amount of hope in a calling, and hope has weight. There is a certain amount of faith in a calling, and faith has weight. There is a certain amount of attention in a calling, and attention has weight.
Weight looks like fear, anxiety, doubt, and anger — anything that ties us in knots. Weight looks like the need, overtime, to do what you need to do. Weight sounds like the still small voice that whispers in your ear. Weight is as heavy as the relief you feel when you let go.
We can practice letting go of the weight by paying attention to details — big and small details ground our perspective. We can practice letting go of the weight by being grateful for it all — for all of life’s unspeakable gifts. We can practice letting go of the weight by connecting with our breath, again and again and again, until we write the end of a sentence.
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.
