[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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Amnesia #1
everywhere many people seem to have forgotten everything
Qiancy Troupe
What if life is one huge process of remembering? Of coming home? Of returning to ourselves? Of molting and shedding and growing?
What is the implication of forgetting on our relationships? Our world? Our not yet?
How do we remember? I am not sure. I forget a lot. I forget small and big things. In my effort to sort life’s wheat from chaff (if that is what the process of remembering is) I lose a lot. I feel isolated. I feel alone. I feel disconnected. I feel separate. I feel stuck.
Remembering looks like connecting with ourselves and others. Remembering looks like story telling. Remembering looks like creation and discovery and curiosity. Remembering looks like rbuilding and sustaining. Remembering looks like paying attention and reverence.
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.
