Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

This is cool:  you can go to this website and type in as many of the countries you know in Africa in ten minutes.  When the time is up, they’ll let you know which ones you’ve missed.   I managed to get 32 of them and could’ve gotten at least two more if I was a [...]

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As my love affair with the internet grows, I keep finding it gives me more to be grateful for.  Since I hooked up wireless internet last week, its become a family affair.  Diene as fully embraced YouTube to watch music videos of his favorite musicians back home.  Man, the stuff you can find on YouTube [...]

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Today, a story of mine appeared on World Hum – a website I’ve been wanting to get published on for quite a long time.  Frank Bures, writer and travel-writing-teacher extraordinaire, was a big help in getting my story to the editors.  (In fact, he was The Reason the editors considered the story.)  This kind favor, [...]

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I saw Mbalax great, Fallou Dieng, play at La Fete de Marquette, Saturday night and am just now getting to posting some of the photos I took.  It was so wonderful to be surrounded by Senegambians, Wolof, Mbalax music and Madisonians who appreciate international music.  A few of the highlights that I am most grateful [...]

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I love the way photos can bring you to another world. A travel website is interested in publishing a chapter from my upcoming book, and they’ve requested a photo to go along with it. I’ve spent the evening looking at my photos from four years ago, when I lived in Senegal, and I can remember [...]

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Being held captive in O’Hare got me thinking about all the travel mishaps I’ve had in my life and how the only thing that made them enjoyable was making an effort to enjoy them. Zig zagging on Himalayan switchback road in India while several motion sick passengers puked out their windows marked not an insufferable [...]

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