[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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Wait till she smiles
Any sight lovelier? Wait till she smiles
Oliver St. John Gadgetry
The world needs more smiles — heart-singing, toe-tingling, storm-cloud parting, kindness-spreading, compassion-building, grace-expanding, anxiety-releasing, peace-causing, cruelty-ceasing, love-exploding smiles. The kind of smiles that happen when a puppy rolls over on her back and waits to have her belly rubbed, or when a baby slowly bats his eyelashes in absolute celebration of his awesomeness, or when your grandmother hugs you after your dance recital, or when you cross a finish line, or when you meet a deadline, or when you hug someone you love, or when you accomplish something wonderful that reminds you that you can get shit done, or when you are bursting with whatever makes you burst.
There is no sight lovelier than that smile. It’s infectious. It’s miraculous. It’s perfection. It’s universal. It’s personal. It shifts things. It’s beginning and end. It’s beauty and truth. It’s stillness and knowing.
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.
