[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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Nine Verses of the Same Song
The ear finely attuned/ to the extravagant music/ of yellow pears ripening in the scrolled light/ of orchards as if the world/ were perfect/ hears the cicada burst its shell
From Wendell Berry’s “Nine Verses of the Same Song“
This time of year has particular music: hot days, short nights, bees, lawnmowers, crickets, frogs, children, stars, thunderstorms, and rivers.
I suppose seasons — life’s seasons — are music. Verses of the same song. Of rest and rhythm. Of ebb and flow. Of falling apart and coming together. Of beginner’s mind and wisdom. Of perfect timing and unanswered prayers. As Ram Dass explains, of walking each other home. Indistinguishable from a distance and unmistakable up close.
About Katie
Born in 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.
