[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 – August 1, 2020
“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light … Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won.”
Rep. John Lewis
This week – my self-proclaimed Gratitude Week – I want to pause in gratitude for the life and service of Rep. John Lewis. His life reminds us all of our potential, our capacity, and our responsibility, to cause “good trouble.” This week I have written about gratitude and wisdom, gratitude and broken hearts, elemental gratitude, body gratitude, gratitude and service, and gratitude and saying “Yes.” I want to end Gratitude Week, in honor of Rep. John Lewis, by describing good trouble gratitude.
Good Trouble Gratitude
Good trouble gratitude builds bridges and crosses over them. Good trouble gratitude both stands on the shoulders and lifts people up. Good trouble gratitude both wades in the water and sees from the mountaintop. Good trouble gratitude is about darkness at night and joy in the morning. Good trouble gratitude gets things done. We are called to make good trouble and live good trouble gratitude this week and beyond.
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.
