[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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So Much Happiness
Since there is no place large enough
From Naomi Shihab Nye’s “So Much Happiness“
to contain so much happiness,
you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you
into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit
for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,
and in that way, be known.
Happiness expands. Happiness commands Happiness sings. Happiness brings. Happiness radiates. Happiness permeates. Happiness soothes. Happiness moves. Happiness heals. Happiness feels. Happiness shines. Happiness mines. Happiness defies. Happiness multiplies. Happiness builds. Happiness wields. Happiness floats. Happiness notes. Happiness forgives. Happiness outlives. Happiness lifts. Happiness shifts. Happiness shares. Happiness pairs. Happiness breathes. Happiness bleeds. Happiness wiggles. Happiness giggles. Happiness glows. Happiness flows. Happiness times. Happiness rhymes.
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.
