[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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Weekly Wide-Awake: A Two Rainbow Week
“They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before.” ― The Red Tent
This has been an incredible week, stacked on top of incredible week, after incredible week, after incredible week. The falling apart and coming together of life feels like it is stuck in the falling apart part. I guess that is how it all works. There would be no coming together if we never fell apart. In the midst of it all, I put on my running shoes and got out the door and ran 20.5 miles. I saw faint rainbows two days in a row. Framed by dark gray clouds, I really had to look to find them. They offered motivation to my body. They offered beauty to my world. They offered hope to my spirit. They were a blessing I was open to receive. Receiving blessings feels particularly important right now.
I have found two rainbows this week. I have thought about butterflies. I have thought about imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. I have thought about quilts. I have thought about turning weapons in to flowers. I have thought about the pain of depression. I have thought about stepping to others. It all seems to fit together. We truly find what we seek.
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.
