[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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Mis Raises
I will be fine here. All will be fine.
I am the true vine, and the desert is my gardener,
Andrés N. Ordorica, Mis Raises
it’s mine to inherit because I am of both land and root.”
We are all of both land and root. In a world of beauty and horror of kindness and cruelty of sickness and health, it is comforting to be of both land and root. Land and root make me center and source. Land and root make me iceberg and banyan. Land and root connect me with myself and others. Land and root connect me with something bigger than noise and distraction. Land and root connect me with history and future. That is the simple truth.
I have been cleaning and sorting recently. Clearing out boxes of letters, cards, programs, mementos, and pictures. Spending hours looking through pictures, reading cards and letters, telling the stories about the artifacts of my life. I know I am of both land and root. My land. My roots. When I look at it all — and think about the open question, I am? — I am reminded of life’s ebbs and flows. I will be fine here. All will be fine.
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.
