[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: One More Love Poem
I’ll count all my days,
From “One More Love Poem,” by Dunya Mikhail
even the nine months of days
before I was born, to say
this exponential, growing “I love you.”
What if we live our lives like one huge love poem? We tell the people we loved we love them. We do more things we love. We consider love as a response during conflict. We treat both friends and strangers with love. We create loving things — like meals, gardens, houses, and art. We view all love as an exponential, growing “I love you.”
A love poem life would be radical. Greed and hate and cruelty would have no air to breathe. Rose colored glasses would be more like kaleidoscopes where even broken glass becomes beautiful. All past broken hearts and grief and pain become the stuff of our story and our song. A love poem life would honor love — the full-throated, open-hearted, wide-awake, miraculous, earth-changing kind of love that would no longer be reserved for the page.
About Katie
From 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.
