[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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Perhaps the World Ends Here
“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.”
from Joy Harjo’s “Perhaps the World Ends Here“
Kitchen tables are powerful. Our lives are filled with kitchen tables. Kitchen tables possess a miraculous capacity. Our capacity to nourish and sustain, support and embrace, seek and understand, see and know, love and heal can be built at the kitchen table. I have shared many kitchen tables over the years. Family. Friends. Colleagues. Readers. Students. Miracles have happened at each kitchen table. From truth and forgiveness to birth and death, miracles happen. Tables have exponential potential. Like ripples on water and butterfly wings, even the most minor action changes the world.
As long as we have kitchen tables, we have hope. We have grace as long as we have a space to come together. We can always build a new kitchen table. We have compassion as long as we have faith in the substance of our interdependence. Perhaps hope, grace, and mercy are where it all begins and ends.
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.
