[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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The Chickadees Are All Up in Our Feelings
Scientists say/ a larger hippocampus serves the species well in the season of remembering,/ when stored cells grow and die,/ replenishing through winter’s hunger,/ when the chickadees return to flit and fly/ to every buried need.
Sarah Carey, The Chickadees Are All Up in Our Feelings
This is a season of remembering. A time of cells growing and dying, taking stock, shedding, molting, and letting go. A time of cycles, order, enough, and softness. A time of forward motion through, rather than around.
Every year, as fall approaches, holidays — global in reach, spanning gods and beliefs — encourage us to reflect and learn. They point us toward fullness and grace. They comfort us as we hug hard edges and truths. They speak the language of peace and amends. They shine under the light of a harvest moon.
There is a natural order. Hunger and sustenance. Light and dark. Beginnings and endings. Fire and water. That is what the chickadees know.
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.
