[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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Ring of Safety
Who sees all beings in his own Self and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
The Isa Upanishad
We are living in a fearful time.
It is hard – right here, right now – to see ourselves in one another. Isolation. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Our hearts break making it just about impossible to be instruments of peace. Our eyes weep and want to close. Talking in theological and philosophical and poetic terms about seeing ourselves in each other is particularly soul crushing right now. I don’t want to see myself in those who spew hate and cruelty and death. I don’t want to extend an olive branch to those who create death and chaos and fear. A ring of safety – the distance kept to protect one from pain – buries compassion, faith, and understanding.
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.
