[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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Your own language
You have to keep staying alive in your own language.
Hug Hamilton
I have worked hard to learn my own language. Our own language is not defined or constrained by syllables and words. Learning my own language has meant exploring my edge. Learning my own language has meant paying careful attention. Learning my own language has meant creating, creating, creating. Learning my own language has meant speaking my desires into existence again, again, and again. Learning my own language has meant falling apart and back together again, again, and again. Learning my own language has meant forgiving again, again, and again.
Our language keeps us alive. Let me explain. We live when we speak clearly. (Clarity happens as we speak our own language.) We live when we stand in our truth. (Our truth is only known when know our own language.) We live when we connect. (Connection happens in our own language.) We live when we love. (Love is our own language.)
About Katie
From 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.
