[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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Bee! I’m expecting you!
Bee! I’m expecting you!/ Was saying Yesterday/ To Somebody you know/ That you were due -// The Frogs got Home last Week -/ Are settled, and at work – Birds, mostly back -/ The Clover warm and thick -// You’ll get my Letter by/ The seventeenth; Reply/ Or better, be with me -/ Yours, Fly.
Emily Dickinson
I love the anticipation of spring. Bees and Flys writing letters. Frogs and Birds and Clover working and dancing in the natural rhythm of life. In this picture of spring, the constancy of change comforts during chaos. Memories of new life offer the promise of birth and bloom. Warmth and light are never too far off.
I have heard that Bees make honey all summer to survive the winter— there being a time for work and a time for rest. Deep in winter, during the time Bees rest, let’s think of the time when we can be together like the Frogs and Birds and Clover. Let’s think of making honey. Let’s think of coming home.
About Katie
Born in 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.
