[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: Living Wide-Awakeness
I graduated from The University of Texas with my Ph.D. in August of 2003. Over the years, I have written about wide-awakeness, the conceptual framework for my work, quite a bit. This Weekly Wide-Awake is the collection of some of those writings. I am shocked by how life moves both quickly and slowly. I am learning it is all in perfect time.
It is interesting to come back around to this time every year and take stock. I think about where I am under the light of where I have been and where I want to be. I think about the overwhelming gratitude I feel for having been given the space and freedom to explore. I think about what service means in terms of living wide-awake. I think about how life has chapters — like seasons and days and tides.
May this newsletter stand as my annual thank you note to all those who supported my journey then and support my journey now. May each know my deep felt gratitude. May they be lifted up knowing they touched my life and others. May this newsletter ground my future work in the wisdom gained from my past work. May this newsletter be a prayer for wide-awakeness in a world thirsting for imagination, compassion, and love. May this newsletter reach those who are asleep to interdependence and connection. May we all be a little more one.
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.
