Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

Some people might shy away at the suggestion of taking out a metal canoe with untested cracks on a 50 degree March evening on Lake Monona, only weeks after all the ice melted into the lake.  Not my sister.  She thinks its a great idea and, in fact, will help me carry the canoe to [...]

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Can you think of a better way to spend 3 minutes and 51 second than watching/listening to a rap video filmed in Senegal, sung in French?   I can’t.   The beautiful pink building with a sweeping staircases in the background is the House of Slaves Museum on Gorée Island.    A slave trading port preserved, so [...]

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Thanks to all of you who voted for your favorite author photo for my upcoming Give with Gratitude: Lessons Learned Listening to West Africa.  Unless you were cheating and submitting your vote several times (like I did) it seems clear that the winner is Red Door & Necklace.  I guess toothy smiles are a hit. [...]

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A game of frisbee in Yahara Place Park with my sister yesterday got muscles moving that have been atrophying for months.   We caught spring fever so bad that we even had a 50-yard dash sprinting contest.  The open water on Lake Monona attracted enough water fowl that when I was walking home at dusk, blocks [...]

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Google recently updated to include a lot more detail in four african countries’ maps – Senegal included.  Diene and I had so much fun finding his hometown, Yayeme (spelled Yayem on the map).  How fun to be able to see the road I walked from Fimela, where the bus would drop me off, to Yayeme, [...]

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I was watching the 20/20 special on Seigfried and Roy out of curiosity – I had always heard that they got plastic surgery to look like the tigers they worked with, and I wanted to take a good look for myself.  Just a few minutes into their story, I was engrossed enough to have forgotten [...]

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