[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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Chapter 3: Bestselling author Seth Godin on the stories you tell yourself
“Your problem is not the outside world, your problem is the story you’re telling yourself about the outside world. And that story is a choice. If you’re not happy with the story, tell yourself another story. Period. That simple.”
Seth Godin, Three Books with Seth Godin, 3 Books Podcast
Neil Pashricha’s The 3 Books Podcast highlights “formative” books by asking writers to identify 3 books. In this episode, Pashricha interviews Seth Godin. Seth discussed the three books he chose: The Book of Est by Luke Rhinehart, See You At The Top by Zig Ziegler, Linchpin by Seth Godin.
Seth covers a lot of ground in discussing his book choices. I want to focus on the idea that we all tell stories. Stories about ourselves. Stories about others. Stories about our world. Stories about truth and identity. Stories about possibility, desire, power, and even love. We chose our stories. By extension, we chose our reality. Hear me out. Within the larger falling apart and coming together — our story — we have a choice. That choice involves making sense of lived experience. The choice involves kindness and imagination. That choice involves joy and sadness. Our choices, taken together, create a narrative. Our narrative is our story. Our story is our reality.
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.
