Stories From Under My Hats: 52 Stories of Poetry and Prose

By Katie O'Regan

Katie O'Regan has worn many hats so far in her life. She has been a New York City real estate broker, a resident artist in Schools for the Creative Arts as a director and a writer, a regional manager of a large portfolio in a national bank, a dancer on a Bro

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Sep 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781958678312

Katie O'Regan

Katie O'Regan Actor/Director/ Musician/PoetKatie is the author of 8 plays and over 150 songs. Her doctoral dissertation is written about mentoring in the workplace. She has been published in academic journals for her work and in newspapers for her work in the theater in film. She is the founder and Director of Sacred Noise Society and The Star City Film Festival. The 71st staged production Katie directed took place on off-Broadway in NYC in the Fall of 2019. Katie produced and directed her first feature film playing the lead role of "Jane Nelson" and also wrote songs on the soundtrack of the film. The film's title is "Painting Jane". Other NYC Director's credits include Tennessee Williams "Trilogy of the Blues", "Women Who Work", by Keith Carey Green and her own original musical, "The Dream Café Musical". Katie trained is a trained Opera singer, Choreographer and actress. She is also the host of the web series "Featured Friday, Filmmakers." She chooses to inspire creativity by bringing light, laughter and beauty to her audiences.

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Contents

Week 1: Jaded in My Jade

Week 2: My Columbus

Week 3: Beauty in a Bucket

Week 4: God Love The Workin’ Man

Week 5: Grilling Forks

Week 6: Gucci Lass

Week 7: Puttin’ All Gears on High

Week 8: The Pie Song

Week 9: A Teachers Song

Week 10: Oprah’s Mother

Week 11: Higher Self Empower

Week 12: Hips hangovers and headaches

Week 13: I Got a Rich Wife’s Job

Week 14: A Day full of Nothing

Week 15: The Peaceful Lark

Week 16: LET IT FLOW

Week 17: The Girls in Saudi Arabia

Week 18: Do I need Somebody

Week 19: A Prayer for Light

Week 20: Thirty Minutes

Week 21: Angel in the Light Bulb

Week 22: Tongue in Cheek for Astrology Freaks

Week 23: A Love Poem

Week 24: I think it Happened in THE YEAR 2003

Week 25: My Red Bike

Week 26: November 22, 1963

Week 27: On Gratitude

Week 28: Finding What We Have…

Week 29: Home Song

Week 30: Quiet Julie

Week 31: The Corporate River

Week 32: Dime Story Philosophy

Week 33: Love and Treason for Good Reason

Week 34: Albuquerque

Week 35: A Color is Just A Color. Ass hole.

Week 36: A White Church Camp

Week 37: A Starbucks Thanksgiving

Week 38: February 6 At my house in the snow

Week 39: So I got my Real Estate License

Week 40: What if?

Week 41: On Being Human and Being Creative…

Week 42: I Ain’t no Test Drive

Week 43: The BANQUET YEARS

Week 44: A bottle of broken Dreams

Week 45: LOVE AND TREASON FOR ALL GOOD REASONS

Week 46: American queen

Week 48: Twosday

Week 49: Dream Queen.

Week 50: A Woman Thing

Week 51: My Mother died

Week 52: I Got a Dog

Week 1

Jaded in My Jade

In my day, I’ve had the great fortune to be an ornament on many a well cuff-linked arm.

Due to my good fortune I have been kept from harm.

I have gained wisdom into the inner workings of so-ci-ety…

from Boston, to New York, to Mi-am-i…

However, this wisdom has not spared me being miserable,

I fear…I have become a rather jaded individual…

You see, I fell in love with a musician named Danny,

who really broke my heart, and it knocked me on my fanny.

And after he dumped me he sent me a jade, stone, ring…that looked rather smart…

(Everyone says Ahhhhh") but it didn’t take away the sting…

He told me it reminded him of my beautiful green…eyes…

He said he’d remember all the good times,

and he said who would ever get me, would be a very lucky guy…

(Chorus)

So I was alone quiet and weary, beholden to none,

I tried to be cheery, and get something done…

but I was jaded in my jade…I became… jaded in that jade…

masqueraded by his parade…wore that ring on my neck on a chain…

swore to God I’d see him again…

(Music Break)

I promised myself ten years back I’d never let him get me…

No kissing on the first date, no chasing him away,

I tried to understand all the times he strayed…

Never begged him to come back after all the times he went away…

Didn’t know, all I was, was just a clown in his parade…

I guess my standards were low, and my visions high.

Guess I look like one of those people who they’d just like to try…

Naïve enough not to know that most men are just ramblin’ Joe’s…

Never sold my soul, my body’s been loved for free…

God knows I’ve had some fun… in spite of me…

(Chorus) But I was jaded in that Jade…

I became… jaded in that jade…masqueraded by his parade…

Wore that ring on my neck on a chain… swore to God I’d see him again…

And then one night,