Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

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 [...]

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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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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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I’m reading (well, listening to) The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank for the first time since I read it when I was the same age as the author.  As an adult listening to her words, I am simultaneously exalted by her wisdom and devastated by her fate.  Such wisdom and honesty from [...]

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With the air so frigidly cold that it reaches up your nose and down your throat to freeze your internal organs, its hard to want to leave the house.  Still, last night I ventured out to see an art opening at Olbrich Gardens.  The artist, Nina Bednarski, and I went to high school together and [...]

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Somehow, its worth putting on two pair of pants, three shirts, a jacket, boots, hat and gloves just to get some (frigid) fresh air these days.  Today I forced myself to get out around the neighborhood with my camera and take pictures of the beauty of winter.  I knew there had to be some – [...]

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