Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

A perfect day: Getting out of a meeting 2 hours earlier than planned Picking up my sweet new Schwinn Collegiate (an August 1969 model) from the bike shop and going for the first ride.  Telling anyone who will listen the story of how I found it abandonned behind my parents’ garage, as though it had [...]

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Mali La is  a three-day party, thrown at a group campsite in Decorah, Iowa, to kick off the summer.  The host is one of those guys that everyone loves and the guests are his friends from various stages in life.  Everyone is easy going and committed to having a good time, whatever that means for [...]

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What a sweet thing to have Michael Perry, one Wisconsin’s best writers in town this week.  Last time I went to one of his readings, it was at the Orpheum and he was on a panel with another Wisconsin-born writer, David Wroblewski.  Michael posed for a picture, holding up both the paperback of his book,  [...]

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On morning this week my sister knocked on my door and woke me up.  I stumbled to the door, wrapped in my comforter, then to the bathroom to put in my contacts.  “I brought the World’s Smallest Friend,” she said as I blinked the sleep out of my eyes.  I pictured some kind of plastic [...]

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Its official – Gratice Press is going for a second printing of my book Give with Gratitude!   If you believe (as I do) that the first edition will become a rarity that some day shocks audiences of our grandchildren on Antiques Road Show with its high value, then I highly recommend you buy a copy [...]

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The muddy garden caked my flip-flops with a layer of mud as thick as their soles.  Each step made a sucking, slurping sound as I rounded the patch.   Bits of red peeked out at me, calling me to part the tall green leaves and pluck the ripe, fresh fruit from the plant.  I am grateful [...]

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