[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: Traveler There Is No Road
All our efforts must tend toward light
Antonio Machado
What does it mean to tend toward light?
Does it mean to simply seek joy? Does it mean to engage in the work of the soul? Does it mean to be kind in all ways? Does it mean light lives at the edge we seek? Does it mean we find light in the broken places and that’s where healing happens? Does it mean after 800 tries we go for 801? Does it mean that it is mile 17 of a marathon and “Gentle On My Mind” is playing? Does it mean we don’t have to carry that weight?
This week, I tend toward light.
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.
