[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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Remember
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
From Joy Harjo’s “Remember“
Shedding and molting. Falling and breaking. Cracking and bending. Changing and breathing. Tempering and weathering. When I think about life’s motion as huge, existential, connected, outside of my grasp, beyond my understanding, happening in perfect time, built on previous motion, heading in the direction of the good, rooted in omniscient love, I am comforted. Motion is a kind of impermanence. It is comforting to think about motion as an opportunity for joy. It is comforting to think of motion as an invitation to pay attention. It is comforting to think of motion as dancing with the not yet or the as if.
How do we remember within a world that is in motion? What does remembering mean in a world rife with struggle and pain? When remembering hurts, how do we heal? These questions hover and fall like brilliant leaves on an October day. Their answers shift and change with years and experience.
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.
