[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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Hope
How to Build a Pattern and Break It
The thing about hope is it breathes imagination.
The thing about imagination is it creates courage.
The thing about courage is it feeds heart.
The thing about heart is it fuels desire.
The thing about desire is it builds fire.
The thing about fire is it demands fuel.
The thing about fuel is it moves mountains.
Words, forming. Fingers, molding. Seeds, planting.
Babies, cooing. Cats, purring. Red velvet cupcakes, baking.
Clouds, parting. People, gathering. Prayers, lifting.
“Hope is the thing with feathers”— Dickinson
Hope as bird. Hope as poem. Hope as song.
Hope as lighthouse. Hope as rock. Hope as soil.
Hope as foundation. Hope as scaffolding. Hope as sanctuary.
I refuse to live in a world without hope.
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.
