[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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from Panic Response
I write this while my hands are shaking.
John McCullough, Glass Men
We hold each other when our hands shake. We hold ourselves when our hands shake. We breathe. We search. We breathe again and again until we find our breath. We rock back and forth until we find our rhythm. We plant our feet and we stand when we are able. We become seekers and healers. We remain open. We pay attention.
We are not alone in shaking. We shake. We feel shame. We fear. We burn and melt. We crack and freeze. We bend and brake.
It makes me feel better to know I am not alone. It takes a minute, sometimes many minutes, to remind myself. The world is made for us to connect. The world is made for us to walk together. The world is made for us to be held in whatever comforts and softens.
That is what I must remember when my hands shake.
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.
