[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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You Can’t Have It All
There is the voice you can still summon at will, like your mother’s,/ it will always whisper, you can’t have it all,/ but there is this.
Barbara Ras, You Can’t Have It All
What is all? Where do balance and rest and center and discipline fit into all? Where do hope and possibility and not yet fit into all? In the midst of it all, do we even want it all?
I think of discernment. I think of stillness. I think of steady. I think of breath. An all held in all that makes sense to me .
I believe we can have it all. The biggest part of having it all is knowing our all. Let me explain. We each have an all. We can listen and pay attention and seek and learn our all. We can surround ourselves with people who support us as we seek and live our all. We can be people who quiet our mind and help others quiet their minds, too. A quiet mind knows a healthy all. All is about saying yes and saying no. All is generous and open hearted. All is positive and grounded.
You can have it all.
About 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.
