[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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Grief and Tuner Syndrome: A View from Inside A Pandemic
Everything Feels Different
How do you cope with grief during a pandemic? “Normal” coping is a debatable idea to begin with, but it seems to have changed to an unrecognizable list of questions that have no sure answers. Given the current circumstances, the ground might feel more like quicksand than solid dirt. Routine is now defined by disruption. Our daily choices seem small against the hugeness that faces us. Turner Syndrome coexists with all this, as it always has, with life’s fundamentals–like change, death, and taxes. But right now, it feels more extreme. A giant spotlight shines on all fear-inducing aspects of life that are normally just a little mind numbing.
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.
