[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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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18)
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare
Love, like summer, is rest, stillness, and slowing down. Love, like summer, is rejuvenation, quiet, and growth. Love, like summer, breath, beauty, and joy. Love, like summer, is light, brilliance, and warmth.
Think of the perfect summer day. How is it different from an average day, say, in the fall? Pace, focus, temperature. Find summer in the taste of the peaches, watermelon, and tomatoes. Find summer in the water’s chill, the ground’s heat, and the wind’s stillness. Find summer’s music in bees, festivals, and ocean waves. Summer is all that. Love is all that, too. Know your summer in your bones.
In its simplest form, like summer, love comforts and heals. It connects and sustains. It is joyful in the way that brilliance is miraculous. It is beautiful in the way green leaves frame a blue sky. It is big, like tides, seasons, and emotions. It is eternal in the way it crosses boundaries of fear, anxiety, and breath.
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.
