Katie Krueger’s Snippets of Gratitude

Being a presenting author at the Wisconsin Book Festival was one of my life dreams, way before I had even started writing a book.   I am grateful to invite you all to come see the realization of that dream!
Book Reading by Katie Krueger
You’ll laugh, you’ll meet cool people, and if you pay attention, you’ll learn […]

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When I first moved to Madison, in November of 2004, I was unemployed, broke, and suffering some major culture shock after having lived in Senegal for the previous year.  My job search was moving slower than I would’ve liked it to, so I took on a project to give my days some meaning: sewing a […]

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Wyalusing State Park is such a gem!  Camping on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers just puts anyone in a good mood.  Things I was grateful for this weekend:

Stepping up the menu from the usual veggie burgers on a bun to chili, pasta, roasted veggies.
Fun in the canoe - my […]

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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 been transported […]

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Turning on to Capitol Square, I check my rear view mirror to see the street behind me full of police motorcycles, lights flashing.  I check my speedometer and hit the brakes - a conditioned response - and see I am going about 10 MPH.  I get up to the cars ahead of me, only to […]

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I know how lucky am I to be able to decide to take a weekday and spend it at Devil’s Lake, instead of in my office.  Still, even after making the decision to do so on Friday, it was hard for me to unplug.  One last email check…one last facebook update…another tweet…okay, email…now flickr….should probably […]

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