[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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Dancing Toward Bethlehem
just as the floor of the nineteenth century gave way
From Billy Collins’ “Dancing Toward Bethlehem“
and disappeared in a red cloud of brick dust.
There will be no time to order another drink
or worry about what was never said,
Today is a dance toward Bethlehem. Breath is quick and shallow. Sight is short and filled with shadows. Strength lives in fits and starts. Time is fluid and impermanent. Collins’ does not dance toward a random place of no significance. He dances toward Bethlehem.
I find hopeful urgency in dancing toward Bethlehem. The birthplace of love manifest. Miracles happen here. Miracles are needed here. Love in a cruel world. Love in a world on the edge. Love and history. Love and beginning. Love and beauty. Love and grace. We can dance — and love — in Bethlehem.
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.
