[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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[in Just-]
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonmanwhistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
springwhen the world is puddle-wonderful
from [in Just-] BY E. E. Cummings
I will soak in every inch of this mud-luscious, puddle-wonderful world. In the midst of the day-to-day and moment-to-moment. In the midst of joy and sorrow. In the midst of change and challenge. In the midst of faith and fear. In the midst of certainty and doubt. In the midst of falling apart and coming together. In the midst of mud and impermanence. I run toward it. Sometimes crashing. Sometimes crying. Sometimes flying. Sometimes crawling. Sometimes dancing. Sometimes holding on. Sometimes letting go.I will soak it all in.
When I forget to soak it all in, something reminds me. Nature reminds me. Music reminds me. Animals remind me. The seasons remind me. Pictures remind me. Memories remind me. Inside jokes remind me. Long conversations remind me. Hugs remind me. The soft orange blanket reminds me. Morning pages remind me. Nightly reflections remind me.
I taste the mud-luscious, puddle-wonderfulness of it all. A puppy rolling in the grass. A warm chocolate brownie. A child’s laughter. A bud on a tree.
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.
