Katy Gentry
Katy is a studio vocalist and licensed special education teacher. Studio credits include Plank Road Publishing, Broadway Jr., Hal Leonard Publishing, and Shawnee Press. She has enjoyed singing the Great American Songbook at Feinstein's Cabaret with ATI Live and The Jazz Kitchen with the JoySwing Jazz Orchestra. Other theatatrical credits include Actors Theatre of Indiana, Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre, Fireside Dinner Theatre, and Carnegie Hall. She holds a Masters in Special Education and currently works with the English as a New Language population in a suburb of Indianapolis.
Take the Trip
I just returned from our first family vacation to Disneyworld. I am tired, broke, and happy. It was not perfect or easy, but it...
Fight to Protect Abortion Access
I was a freshman in high school taking a speech and debate class. Teams of two would take a topic and debate a team...
Finding My Calm with Mindfulness
I don’t know what it is with her voice -the tone or the melodic phrasing- but listening to Tamara Levitt tell me to find...
I Found Jesus in the Rubble
My four-year-old thinks that God lives in her butt. This is a non-theological yet logical conclusion in her developing mind. God made her. God...
Teachers Are Exhausted
Here is where I would compose the extremely creative introductory paragraph with a good hook. But due to the potential mass teacher exodus and...
Seven Bags of Blood Saved My Life
It was my first pregnancy. I was thirty-six. The thought of labor and delivery was honestly terrifying to me.
I had no idea that the...
Travel Solo: Forty-Eight Hours of Guilt
If I willingly set my alarm for anything before 6:00 am, you can be assured that the reason behind the early rising is a...
I Need to Go to Bed
I was finally on the last episode of the last season of Schitt’s Creek. I debated on if I should watch it or wait...
Face-To-Face: Me and Myself, Forty Years Later
My mom gave one final push and there I was - 1:28 AM on Wednesday, September 9th. Forty years later I am imagining what it...
You Just Have to Go Through It
We grieve a loss of some kind. In fact, we can physically feel it - the heavy anguish. Everyone at some point will go...
Top Ten New Books for Summer: Tots to Teenagers Edition
Summer is here and everyone in your house is ready for a change of pace! Routines are different. Some are busy and other families...
My Bisexuality is Valid
It is Pride Month and for the first time, I will be celebrating this month as a member of the LGTBQ+ community. This is...
Special Needs Moms: We’re Gonna Make It After All
I was about seven or eight at the time. When my mom would turn into our neighborhood I would beg her to pull over...
Read Across America: Ideas to Celebrate Diverse Literature
The first Read Across America was held on March 2nd in 1998 and was the National Education Foundation's brainchild. They landed on March 2nd...