[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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Living the Questions
If you are faithful to living a question, that question will be faithful back to you.
Krista Tippett
The older I get the more curious I become. Curiosity, I have learned, is important to live the questions. The older I get, the less concerned I am with answers, too. Maybe that is the result of many answers being contingent, fluid, wrong, backward, withheld, and/or depressing. Living the questions reminds that sure footed certainty is seldom the best path. The more know-it-all I become, the more rigid my understanding, the more situated in rightness I am, the less I learn. I feel alive when I am learning.
I love the idea that we have conversations with questions — that a question can be faithful back to you. A faithful question is patient as it moves between your heart and mind. A faithful question pays attention to all that lives around it. A faithful question is soft like impermanence and grace. A faithful question is vast and spacious, and invites doubt and fear inside to be held and consoled.
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.
