Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

let me die the brazen death of a maple leaf choked of chlorophyll facing fate fearlessly with fiery red flare green then gold, a weakening grip. red then release, a resting place. a life of service, sustaining its source. all growth for a greater good. death’s decomposition perpetuates purpose. nourishing tree roots, unseen. (Today, I [...]

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Dane101.com is a website that I visit almost daily. It has great content written by local authors. As their website says, Dane101 is an online publication for Madison and Dane County. Written by contributors from and familiar with life here, Dane101 is about the persons, events, and issues that shape the region. Dane101.com features a [...]

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I am whizzing down Williamson Street on my bike, a red Felt that makes me want to pedal as fast as I can. The traffic is nearly bumper to bumper, inside most of the cars I see families clad in red, Badger fans going home. I cruise down the narrow passage between parked cars on [...]

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The things I am grateful for today: Emily motivating me to do National Novel Writing Month again this year! (And buy a Mac) Finishing Katha Pollitt’s “Learning To Drive” Beginning Michael Perry’s “Population:485″ A gorgeous day to bike and run Saint Ralph – a great movie about a special boy with impossible goals

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Between us, Diene and I can speak six languages: English, Serer, French, Wolof, Pulaar and Hindi. (Ok, invoke the past tense – spoke -for me and Hindi. In less than five years, I have completely forgotten all but the salutations – but such an exorcising of knowledge is a skill in itself.) What these means [...]

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As an 8-year old girl, most of my life unfolded in five square city blocks in Wauwatosa, WI. The world between my house on 81st Street and Lincoln Elementary School on 76th did not satisfy my wanderlust and thus began my life of literary escapism. My favorite destination was in the branches an old elm [...]

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