Katie Krueger's Snippets of Gratitude

There’s nothing like easing into a conversation with an old friend and soon after feeling like you’ve picked up exactly where you left off.  No matter how much time or distance has grown between you.   So much of the background information in each story goes unsaid  – no need to explain your parents’ relationship, where [...]

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After a nice, albeit brief, trip to my hometown, I feel grateful that 81st Street was such a fertile planting ground for my roots.   A great house, great parents, a big backyard and a best friend who lived across the street. So often, our roots remain hidden, out of sight.  Only in the rare cases [...]

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Yesterday, immediately after I wrote the Reunion piece and sent it to everyone on the evite list, I felt a sharp pang of regret. Maybe wearing my heart on my sleeve was not as good of an idea as I thought. But then, something wonderful happened. I started getting emails from lots of people who [...]

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Across the room I see a girl I went to high school with. She looks good; she must have put in some effort for the night. She looks a bit older; lines at the corners of her eyes are an endearing mark of lots of laughter. It seems that her nose has gotten bigger, which [...]

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I saw this today on Yahoo!’s local news feed. Naturally, I like to keep up on the goings-on of my hometown. Computer Glitch Leads To Brawl At Wauwatosa Kmart A melee at a Kmart store in Wauwatosa Saturday morning was started by a computer glitch. The store was running a promotion in which it would [...]

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