[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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At Random
At Random is the instant a horse at full speed has all four hooves off the ground.
Mark Nepo
I have studied the concept of wide-awakeness for many years. It seems related to at random to me. Wide-awakeness is the idea that we can achieve a state of flow, heightened consciousness, and greater awareness. Wide-awakeness can happen while we are acting in a play, playing a chess match, climbing a mountain, presenting in public, or really doing anything that requires us to become one with a given moment. In describing wide-awakeness, philosophers talk about our capacity to be both in experiences and of experiences. Being in and of experiences is at random. For horses, at random is when they are running, all hooves are off the ground, and they are basically flying forward.
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.
