[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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Calling Dreams
The right to make my dreams come true,
From Georgia Douglas Johnson’s “Calling Dreams“
I ask, nay, I demand of life,
We have the right to make our dreams come true. What an amazing, hopeful, optimistic, inspiring thought. It reminds me of the not yet. Writers and thinkers have mused about the not yet a long time. The not yet is the space beyond what is and what has been. The not yet is in our hands.
Philosopher Maxine Green suggests, “We are not yet.” That sounds like calling dreams to me. That sounds like open hands and hearts. That sounds like possibility, and looking beyond what is. That sounds like the act of becoming, which is life’s greatest gift.
We have the right to make our dreams come true. I would extend that to include that we have a responsibility to create a world where that right is enjoyed by everyone. That is a world where we accompany others on the paths of all our dreams. That is the world where we thrive in the now and the not yet.
About Katie
Born in 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.
