[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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All I Want
I want to be strong I want to laugh along
From Joni Mitchell’s, “All I Want” from Blue
I want to belong to the living
Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive
I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive
Do you want – do you want – do you want to dance with me baby
Do you want to take a chance
On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby
Well, come on
This song is about belonging to the living, wrecking stockings, taking chances, and sweet romance. It is about clarity of intention and living big. It is about knowing and asking for everything you want. It is about love with shame. It is about people who move between love and hate, kindness and cruelty, companionship and loneliness, freedom and boundaries.
This is a love letter to the self. A note about basic commitments to ourselves that we easily break. A step toward paying attention in a fast moving world. A banishment of fear for faith. A vindication of simple needs. An affirmation of the life’s mess and beauty. A challenge to our not yet self. A statement that all we are is enough.
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.
