[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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from “Beyond Belief”
It’s where you are in your imagination
John Keith
That’s important, for the life of simply staying where you are
Is a shadow’s life, that leaves you by yourself, alone and scared.
Why can’t we just move on? The light up ahead is soft
And seems to beckon us, glowing with a promise of beginning
Once again, as if there were still time.
I take comfort in the fact we don’t have to choose a shadow’s life that leaves us by ourself, alone, and scared. I take comfort in the fact we don’t have to stay where we are. We can move on. I take comfort in the fact the light ahead is soft and glows with the promise of beginning. I take comfort in the fact there is still time to begin.
I don’t doubt there is still time to begin. Time is all I know. Impermanence is time’s beginning and end. It is how I know light and dark. It is how I know morning and night. It is how I know birth and death. There is always still time to begin because there is always imagination and breath and movement. There is always still time to begin because love is fierce and works miracles. There is always still time to begin because falling apart and back together happen in perfect time. (Their constancy reassures me.) Within all that we simply begin and begin and begin.
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.
