[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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Books Falling, Paying Attention
October: Pay Attention
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.Mary Oliver Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun is a year-long ex...
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Paying Attention
Find Your Something
The Well of Ancient Mysteries To look at it, the well is a small piece of land covered with mango and banyan trees, tropical flowers, and a mural-decorated house surrounded by a 7-Eleven, an empanada food truck, a Metrorail station, and flashy hig...
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Poetry
The Angels and the Furies
The Angels and the FuriesMay Sarton 1 Have you not wounded yourself/ And battered those you love/ By sudden motions of evil,/ Black rage in the blood/ When the soul, premier danseur,/ Springs toward a murderous fall?/ The furies possess you. ...
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Doing Philosophy
I Am Not Yet
A few years ago, Greg and I were standing at the Beirgarten at Epcot when a man asked me to take a picture of him with his group. He explained he was celebrating his 60th birthday at Disney World with his family, and the guys in the group had wandere...
read moreAbout 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.
