[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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Onto a Vast Plain
Through the empty branches the sky remains.
From “Onto a Vast Plain” by Rainer Maria Rilke
It is what you have.
Be earth now, and evensong.
Be the ground lying under that sky.
Be modest now, like a thing
ripened until it is real …
Be earth now. Be earth now. Be earth now.
When fear stops me in my tracks. Be earth now.
When I watch the New York marathon and I am reminded we are steel. Be earth now.
When my internal satellite radio stays on the shame channel. Be earth now.
When I connect with a friend that I have not heard from for many years. Be earth now.
When I let failure weigh more than success. Be earth now.
When I taste a pumpkin walnut pancake. Be earth now.
When I don’t know the right words. Be earth now.
When I know the right words. Be earth now.
We I can’t get out of bed. Be earth now.
When I wake up ready to high five the day. Be earth now.
When I am insecure, lost, out of sorts, angry, hurt, lonely. Be earth now.
When I am joyful, shining, amazed, peaceful, relaxed, remembering to breath. Be earth now.
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.
