• 307 pages

• 6 x 9

• Softcover

• ISBN 978-1949248-593

• Copyright 2022

By Katie Laur

Nancy Katherine Laur is a Southern girl raised on the red dirt of middle Tennessee. This is where she began to fashion for herself a different kind of American Dream. If this compilation of her stories rings true, it’s because Katie is a keen observer of the human condition and her writing reveals a thread in the fabric of life that holds us all together.

She writes about human frailty, successes, and she celebrates the lives of ordinary people with great compassion. Her stories will remind you of your own experiences, and she is as fascinated with people who might wander into a country bar at midnight looking like they had been to a prom to people attending an event hosted by the symphony.

It has been said that if you haven’t lived it, you haven’t learned it. Katie’s life in music has provided many unusual experiences, from performing bluegrass to singing for sophisticated audiences in New York City. She writes of family and friends, of relatives she hasn’t seen in years, and of characters as different as riverboat captains and woman who are her heroes.

Reading these stories is like being guided through a museum filled with paintings of interesting people, each presented in a way that allows us to walk arm in arm with Katie as our docent.

A docent with a quick wit and a smooth southern accent.